<P> In England, in the absence of census figures, historians propose a range of pre-incident population figures from as high as 7 million to as low as 4 million in 1300, and a post-incident population figure as low as 2 million . By the end of 1350 the Black Death had subsided, but it never really died out in England over the next few hundred years: there were further outbreaks in 1361--62, 1369, 1379--83, 1389--93, and throughout the first half of the 15th century . The plague often killed 10% of a community in less than a year--in the worst epidemics, such as at Norwich in 1579 and Newcastle in 1636, as many as 30 or 40% . The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England, all coinciding with years of plague in Germany and the Low Countries, seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636 . </P> <P> The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 18th centuries, and still occurs in isolated cases today . </P> <P> The plague of 1575--77 claimed some 50,000 victims in Venice . In 1634, an outbreak of plague killed 15,000 Munich residents . Late outbreaks in central Europe include the Italian Plague of 1629--1631, which is associated with troop movements during the Thirty Years' War, and the Great Plague of Vienna in 1679 . About 200,000 people in Moscow died of the disease from 1654 to 1656 . Oslo was last ravaged in 1654 . In 1656 the plague killed about half of Naples' 300,000 inhabitants . Amsterdam was ravaged in 1663--1664, with a mortality given as 50,000 . </P> <P> The Great Plague of London in 1665--1666 is generally recognized as one of the last major outbreaks . </P>

The black death originated first in genoa and venice in 1347