Black Death, a name given to a succession of fatal epidemics that devastated the world from China to Ireland in the 14th century, believed to be the same as the Oriental plague, though attended with peculiar symptoms; the most serious was that of 1348, which, as is reckoned, stripped England alone of one-third of its inhabitants.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Black Assize * Black Forest