Dear Friends,I don't know if countries other than England had the plague,
I don't believe it made it to Australia :)
I don't believe the natives of 14th c Australia would have been able to leave wrtitten record of it if it *had* reached there :)
No, but they are one of the world's best at handing down stories accurately orally as witnessed by their tales of the Volcanic eruptions in the State of Victoria, the last of which occurred some 5000 years B.P. (before present). I'm sure a catastrophe such as the plague would have made it into their oral tradition. The small pox devastation certainly did.
Most people don't realize that between the time that Sydney was first settled (1788) and the arrival of Europeans in Port Phillip Bay (Melbourne - 1835) the Aboriginal population of what became Victoria in 1851 had been reduced from a possible 2 million to some 10,000!!!! - all through small pox from Sydney. Then because of alcohol, syphillis and deculturalization, only one Aboriginal infant survived in Melbourne between 1835 and 1851!! We've certainly got a lot for which to answer, long before the stolen generation issue came to the fore.
David in Ballarat
But yes, the Plague spread far beyond England; I believe it decimated Germany, for example. Of course, I have always had trouble keeping the Plague and the 100 Yrs War apart -- both had been "detrimental to the health" of Europe in general, and neither seemed to have made much difference to Poland... <g>
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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