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The Black Death Reaches Europe at Messina

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The sources agree on the month, not the day: the plague ships are recorded as reaching Messina in October 1347, so the pin covers that month rather than claiming a date.^[1]

Start: Oct 1, 134750% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
End: Oct 31, 134750% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

The Black Death Reaches Europe at Messina

Genoese galleys carrying plague from the Black Sea put in at Messina in Sicily, and the disease went ashore with them. Over the next seven years it killed perhaps a third of Europe - up to 50 million people - and took two centuries to be made good.

The pandemic ran in Europe from 1346 to 1353 and is one of the most fatal in human history. [S]
Contemporary accounts put the Sicilian landfall in October 1347, from ships out of Caffa on the Black Sea; the month is agreed, the day is not. [S]
Plague has never gone away - the WHO still records cases each year in Africa, Asia and the Americas, now treatable with antibiotics.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
en.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 21, 2026· Starts Oct 1, 1347 ✓· Ends Oct 31, 1347 ✓· 50% of score
The sources agree on the month, not the day: the plague ships are recorded as reaching Messina in October 1347, so the pin covers that month rather than claiming a date.
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WHO fact sheet: Plague
who.int· Added Sep 21, 2026· 50% of score
The WHO's standing account of the disease, its three forms and its persistence today.

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Starts 11/01/2005ESTIMATED 62% CONFIDENCE20.9 years agoAccounts of the Marmaray excavation (Grand Sirkeci^[3] Hotel's history page and the Harvard 'Urban Imagination' exhibit) place the discovery of the silted-up harbor at Yenikapı in November 2005, without a more precise day recorded.
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08/01/2003 - 08/31/2003ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCE23.1 years agoThe source^[1] gives months, not days — "The predominant heat was recorded in July and August" — with one firm peak: "1 August 2003 was the hottest day in centuries, with night temperatures well above 30 C". The pin covers August, the month the source's own statistics section is built around.
Europe had its hottest summer since at least 1540, with night temperatures staying above 30C and eight consecutive days over 40C in Auxerre. The death toll has been estimated at more than 70,000.
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Starts 11/01/1755CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE270.9 years agoThe source^[1] dates it firmly — the earthquake "hit the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time". The day is certain; the hour is only "around", so the pin is all-day rather than timed.
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Starts 09/11/2023CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCE3.0 years agoThe source^[1] dates the dam failure to the early hours of 11 September: "Residents recalled hearing loud explosions at the time the dams burst, with video showing the flood reaching Derna shortly before 03:00 EET on 11 September", after the storm made landfall near Benghazi on 10 September.
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Starts 12/31/1760ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE265.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] says it "opened in 1760 on Via Condotti" and names no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.
Antico Caffè Greco opened in 1760 a few steps from the Spanish Steps and became the room where the Grand Tour sat down - Keats, Byron, Goethe, Stendhal and Casanova among the names attached to it. It is the oldest cafe in Rome, and has spent recent years fighting its landlord in court over the rent on the premises it has occupied for more than two and a half centuries.
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