PLAGUE

first visited Europe in 430 B.C. at Athens, and Joseph us records that of Jerusalem in A.D. 72. The one at Rome in 262, and at Constantinople in 544. are among the most disastrous plagues of antiquity, and the ' Black Death ’ which traversed Europe from 1347-1350, brought to England in 1593, was the worst in more modem times The plague raged in Marseilles in 1720, in Me ina in 1743, and in Moscow in 1771. Its last appearance in Europe was in the neighbourhood of Astrakhan in 1878-79.