Mount Fuji

volcano in Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, Japan

7 dated entries naming Mount Fuji, drawn from 7 separate years between 663 CE and 1995 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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7th century

663Mount Fuji is estimated to have been first climbed by a monk in this year.source

8th century

781July 31 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji occurs (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).source

9th century

864Jōgan eruption (Japan): Mount Fuji, located on Honshu Island, erupts for 10 days.source

12th century

1180September 14 – Battle of Ishibashiyama: A Taira force of approximately 3,000 men, led by Ōba Kagechika, defeats Minamoto no Yoritomo near Mount Fuji (in present-day Odawara). Yoritomo narrowly escapes by sea and flees to Awa Province.source

20th century

1966March 5 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes in severe clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji soon after taking off from Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing all 124 people on board.source
1972March 26 – An avalanche on Mount Fuji in Japan kills 19 climbers.source
1995May 16 – Following the Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara. Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.source