The Islamic City · event 13 of 15

1348

The Black Death. Plague kills perhaps a third of Egypt’s population. The estates of the dead pass to the state and help fund the great Mamluk building programme.

The The Islamic City era

  1. 641
  2. 750
  3. 868
  4. 879
  5. 969
  6. 970
  7. 1087
  8. 1168
  9. 1171
  10. 1176
  11. 1250
  12. 1258
  13. 1348
  14. 1356–1363
  15. 1474

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