What the records say
- When
- 590
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 41.89° N, 12.48° E
- Description
- epidemic of plague in Rome, Italy, in the year 590
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Roman Plague of 590
Epidemic of plague in Rome, Italy, in the year 590
The Roman Plague of 590 was an epidemic of plague that affected the city of Rome in the year 590. Probably bubonic plague, it was part of the first plague pandemic that followed the great plague of Justinian, which began in the 540s and may have killed more than 100 million Europeans before spreading to other parts of the world and which lasted until the end of Late Antiquity.
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