On or around this day in 1348, the Black Death arrives in London.
Black death struck London in November 1348 and spread all the way up the coast of East Anglia early in the new year. It had ravaged Wales and the Midlands by spring 1349, and by late summer, it had crossed the Irish Sea and penetrated the north.
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