Mount Vesuvius

active stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy

17 dated entries naming Mount Vesuvius, drawn from 17 separate years between 1627 BCE and 1944 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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17th century BC

1627 BCE1627 BC—Beginning of a period of cooling of the world climate lasting several years, recorded in tree-rings all over the world. Various volcanic eruptions have been suggested for the cause of this climatic event; the Minoan eruption of Thera, the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius, or the eruption of Mount Aniakchak.source

4th century BC

340 BCEThe Roman-Samnite army under consuls Publius Decius Mus and Titus Manlius Torquatus attack and defeat the Latins and Campanians near Mount Vesuvius in the Battle of Vesuvius.source

1st century BC

73 BCEThird Servile War: Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator, escapes with around 70 slave-gladiators from a gladiator school at Capua. They defeat a small Roman force and equip themselves with captured military equipment as well with gladiatorial weapons. Spartacus and his band of gladiators plunder the region surrounding Capua and retire to a defensible position on Mount Vesuvius.source

1st century

63Pompeii, the city at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, builds a new monumental forum, after the town is heavily damaged by a strong earthquake.source
79August 24 or c. October 24 – Eruption of Mount Vesuvius: Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplontis. The Roman navy (based at Misenum), commanded by Pliny the Elder, evacuates refugees. Pliny dies after inhaling volcanic fumes.source

5th century

472Mount Vesuvius erupts. During the volcanic eruption the whole of southern Europe is blanketed by ash.source

6th century

512King Theodoric the Great grants citizens on Mount Vesuvius exemption from taxes, after a severe eruption in southeastern Italy.source

17th century

1631December 16 – A volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Pompeii occurs, for the first time in several centuries.source
1682August 12 – Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for 10 days.source
1694April 13 – The largest volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius since 1631 takes place, with lava flows towards both San Giorgio a Cremano and Torre del Greco, after explosions in the crater that began April 5. Around April 20, ash falls are experienced as far away as Calabria.source

18th century

1704May 19–23 – Vigorous Strombolian activity from Mount Vesuvius, Italy is recorded.source
1709Herculaneum, an ancient town in Ercolano, Campania, Italy and buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is discovered by accident when attempts to drill a well for a monastery encountered marble and other materials.source
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
1794June–July – Mount Vesuvius erupts in Italy; the town of Torre del Greco is destroyed.source

19th century

1822October 21 – The volcano Mount Vesuvius near Naples erupts.source

20th century

1906April 5 – Mount Vesuvius in Campania erupts, killing over 100 people and ejecting the most lava ever recorded from a Vesuvian eruption. Italian authorities were preparing to hold the 1908 Summer Olympics when Mount Vesuvius erupted, devastating the province of Naples. Funds were diverted to the reconstruction of Naples, requiring a new location for the Olympics to be found.source
1944March 18 – The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26, and causes thousands to flee their homes.source