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AD 79 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Titus and Vespasianus (or, less frequently, year 832 Ab urbe condita ).
For more than five centuries, until approximately 2018, articles about the eruption of Vesuvius typically stated that the eruption began on August 24, 79 AD. This date came from a 1508 printed copy of a letter addressed by Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus, originally written some 25 years after the event.
68 AD: Emperor Nero commits suicide, prompting the Year of the Four Emperors in Rome. 70 AD: Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus. 79 AD: Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius. 98 AD: After a two-year rule, Emperor Nerva dies of natural causes, his adopted son Trajan succeeds him. 100 – 940: Kingdom of Aksum forms in the ...
For computational reasons, astronomical year numbering and the ISO 8601 standard designate years so that AD 1 = year 1, 1 BC = year 0, 2 BC = year −1, etc. [c] In common usage, ancient dates are expressed in the Julian calendar, but ISO 8601 uses the Gregorian calendar and astronomers may use a variety of time scales depending on the ...
Vespasian (/ v ɛ s ˈ p eɪ ʒ (i) ən,-z i ən /; Latin: Vespasianus [wɛspasiˈaːnʊs]; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79. The last emperor to reign in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for 27 years. His fiscal reforms and consolidation of the empire brought ...
A view of the ancient beach, with the skeletons of the fugitive victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD, open to the public for the first time.
About 19,000 years ago: the style of eruption changed to a sequence of large explosive and caldera-forming Plinian eruptions, of which the AD 79 one was the most recent. The calderas are aligned in a roughly east–west direction, and all contributed to forming present-day's Somma caldera. [31]
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