Pompeii

ancient Roman city near modern Naples, Italy

12 dated entries naming Pompeii, drawn from 11 separate years between 600 BCE and 1748 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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6th century BC

600 BCEPompeii is founded. (approximate date)source

1st century BC

89 BCEPompeii is annexed by the Roman Republic.source
80 BCEPompeii becomes the Roman colony Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompei when Sulla occupies the city with at least 4,000 soldier-colonizers.source
50 BCEInitiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus, detail of a wall painting in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, is made (approximate date).source

1st century

59Rioting breaks out between the people of Pompeii and the people of Nuceria during a gladiator fight in Pompeii. Thousands are killed.source
60AD 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.source
62A great earthquake damages cities in Campania, including Pompeii (February 5).source
62Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Roman banker from Pompeii (b. c. AD 14)source
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

17th century

1631December 16 – A volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Pompeii occurs, for the first time in several centuries.source

18th century

1748The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered.source