Mount Etna
active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy
11 dated entries naming Mount Etna, drawn from 10 separate years between 475 BCE and 1971 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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5th century BC
15th century
- 1496February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber, a description of a journey to Mount Etna, is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius, the first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo) and with early adoption of the semicolon (dated 1495 according to the more veneto).source
17th century
19th century
- 1843November 25 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, and kills 69 people in the village of Bronte.source
- 188618 May — Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna volcano on Sicily, following a powerful summit explosion. The eruption builds a row of pyroclastic cones, the largest of which is named Monte Gemmellaro (in honour to the Gemmellaro family of volcanologists from Catania who studied Etna in the 19th century). A lava stream comes very close to Nicolosi. Eruptions continue to 7 June 1886.source
- 18928 July – Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna vulcano in Sicily. Eruptions would continue to 29 December 1892. A spectacular row of pyroclastic cones was formed named Monti Silvestri, in honour of the Italian volcanologist Orazio Silvestri (1835 – 1890).source
20th century
- 1911September 11 – An eruption of Mount Etna on Sicily sends a lava stream 2,000 feet wide and four feet deep, and leaves 20,000 homeless, between Linguaglossa and Randazzo.source
- 1923June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.source
- 192318 June – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homelesssource
- 1971April 5 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.source