The beaked plague doctor is not from the Black Death.

1347 · 1619 · apart: 272 years

The costume is first described in the 17th century and credited to the French physician Charles de Lorme in 1619, almost three centuries after the epidemic.

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• Black Death1347–1351 · Messina. Genoese galleys from Caffa brought plague to Messina in Sicily, from where it swept across Europe. Within a few years the Black Death killed an estimated third to half of the continent's population, reshaping its economy and society.

14th century · 17th century

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