Plague of Justinian The DEADLY Pandemic That Changed History #bizarrehistory #shorts #viralshorts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:03]The Plague of Justinian infected the Byzantine Empire around 541 CE and is considered one of the first recorded pandemics. You may want to check out some of our other videos about it. At its peak, this plague killed roughly 10,000 people a day and ultimately took the lives of roughly 100 million people around the world. While many suspected the Plague of Justinian originated in China or India and was then spread through sea trading routes, the particular virus or disease that caused the pandemic was never identified. It lasted 225 years before it finally disappeared and it managed to alter the course of human political history by preventing the Byzantine Empire from spreading into Italy.