1421

In 1421, a total of 7 epidemic events are known so far. It is a year. See also time and timelines.

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Page	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1419-00-00-Zwiefalten	1419 JL	Outbreak of plague all over the world and, probably, also in the monastery of Zwiefalten.	1419. Hoc anno regnaverunt pestilencie in toto orbe terrarum, et innumerabilia milia hominum obierunt, quos denumerare nemo poterat, in diversis urbibus. Et duraverunt duos annos et ultra	In 1419, pestilences prevailed throughout the entire world, and countless thousands of people perished, whom no one could enumerate, in various cities. And they endured for two years and more.	Annales Zwifaltenses 1852, p. 63	Translation by Martin Bauch
1421-00-00-Novgorod	8 September 1421 JL	Throat disease in Novgorod.	[6929] Тое же оцени, сентября 8, поча быти болѣзнь коркотная.	That autumn, September 8 (1421), the korkota disease began.	Prodolzhenie letopisi po Voskresenskomu spisku in Polnoe Sobranie Russkikh Letopiseĭ, vol. 8, Moscow 2001: Iazyk Russkoĭ Kul’tury, p. 91	None
1421-00-00-Sweden 001	1421 JL	Great rainfall in south-central Sweden is succeeded by bad harvests, pestilence and drought in 1421 and 1422.	Eodem anno tanta fuit pluvie inundacio, quod in multis locis computruerunt segetes stantes in stipula; veneruntque simul pestilencia et sterilitas. Ipsa quoque pestilencia iam duraverat per annum integrum et necedum cessavit; que in multis terrarum finibus ita grassata fuerat, quod domus relinquerentur absque habitatore.	In the same year (1421), such great amounts of rain fell that the corn in many places rotted away uncut; and at the same time came pestilence and drought. This plague epidemic had now lasted a whole year and had not yet ceased; in many countries it had ravaged so violently that houses were left uninhabited.	Claes Gejrot: Vadstenadiariet. Latinsk text med översättning och kommentar. Stockholm 1996, p. 174	Translation by Carina Damm
1421-00-00-Sweden 002	1421 JL	Eric of Pomerania issues a monetary statute that causes the devastation of many estates and severe mortality in Sweden	konungin en pänningh stadga stichtade – herra henning koningxmark thz dichtade – Sidan then penning stadga war sath tha wordo mang gozen ödhalagt – Riket plagadis mz stora dödha ther mz lagdis gozen ödha – the fatiga bönder som ater liffwa jämstor stadga sculle the giffwa – ther forre hundrada bönder boodhe – ther finnas nw naplika tiwgu godhe	The king enacted a monetary statute – sir Henning Köningsmark dictated it – Since that money statute was set, many estates were destroyed – the kingdom was plagued with great death, therewith the estates were laid waste – the poor peasants who remained would supply equal provision – where before a hundred peasants lived, there are now hardly twenty estates	Gustaf Edvard Klemming 1866, p. 23, col. 648–657	Translation by Carina Damm
1421-08-00-Paris	August 1421 JL	A mortality breaks out in Paris in August. Poeple get headaches and heavy fever. Children and women were most at risk	Item, en ce temps, était très grande mortalité, et tous mouraient de chaleur qui au chef les prenait et puis la fièvre et mouraient sans rien ou peu empirer de leur chair, et toutes femmes et les plus jeunes gens.	In this time was a great mortality. People, mostly women and young ones, died because of headache and of fever, but their bodies were not injured.	Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris 1990, p. 171	Translation by Thomas Labbé
1421-09-08-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia Sim	8 September 1421 JL	Another wave of plague and famine, probably in Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia	Toe же oceни [6929] Ceнтаврiа 8 почя быти болѣзнь коркотная, и на зиму гладъ бысть.	That autumn [1421], on September 8, the plague began and there was famine in the winter.	Симеоновская летопись, in: Полное Cобрание Pусских Летописей, vol. XVIII, Mocквa: Знак, 2007, p. 166.	None
1421-10-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia	September 1421 JL	Another wave of plague, probably in Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia	Toe же oceни [6929] ceнтавриа и поча быти болѣзнь коркотна и на зиму глад бысть.	That autumn, in September [6929], the plague began and there was famine in the winter.	Московский лeтoпиcный свод конца XV века, in: Полное Cобрание Pусских Летописей, т. XXV, Mocквa: Языки Cлaвянcкoй Kyльтypы, 2004, p. 245.	Translation by Dariusz Dabrowski

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