The Plague of Justinian (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the plague that broke out in Constantinople 541AD, in the reign of Emperor Justinian. According to the historian Procopius, writing in Byzantium at the time, this was a plague by which the whole human race came near to being destroyed, embracing the whole world, and blighting the lives of all mankind.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 541
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Muhammad (570)
- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Muhammad's first revelation (610)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Hagia Sophia (532)