Мастер wrote:Heid the Ba wrote:The one that jumps out at me is that the Black Death was two centuries before Henry VIII.
Looks like there were recurrences of the plague in England in 1471 and 1479-1480.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_plague_pandemic
These were before Henry VIII was born, but were during the life of Henry VII, although he was not yet king - as we know, he only took the throne in 1498, after the thirteen year glorious reign of Richard IV.
And pandemics originating in 542AD in Byzantium, and in 19th Century in China (as well as the mid 14th century and 15th century recurrences), and "3248 documented cases, which resulted in 584 deaths" between 2010 and 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague