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AD 79

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8 dated entries naming AD 79, drawn from 8 separate years between 3 CE and 1738 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

  • 3AD 3 – Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, Roman politician and astrologer (d. AD 79)source
  • 38Drusilla, Jewish princess and daughter of Herod Agrippa I (d. AD 79)source
  • 40Ma, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (d. AD 79)source
  • 60AD 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.source
  • 62The making of Still Life, a detail of a wall painting from Herculaneum, begins (finished in AD 79). It is now kept at Museo Nazionale in Naples.source

2nd century

  • 106February 13 – He of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (b. AD 79)source
  • 166Ma Rong, Chinese poet and politician (b. AD 79)source

18th century

  • 1738October 22 – The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins near the Italian city of Resina on orders from King Charles III of Spain to his engineer, Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.source

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