Mount Etna

active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy

7 dated entries naming Mount Etna, drawn from 7 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

475 BCEThe first recorded eruption of Mount Etna occurs.source

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

1669March 11 – Mount Etna erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi.source
1693January 11 – The Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy, causing a devastating earthquake that kills 60,000 people in Sicily and Malta.source

19th century

1843November 25 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, and kills 69 people in the village of Bronte.source

20th century

1923June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.source
1971April 5 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.source