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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.
An eruption of Vesuvius seen from Portici, by Joseph Wright (c. 1774–6) Since the eruption of AD 79, Vesuvius has erupted around three dozen times. It erupted again in 203, during the lifetime of the historian Cassius Dio. In 472, it ejected such a volume of ash that ashfalls were reported as far away as Constantinople (760 mi.; 1,220 km).
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. - Marco Cantile/LightRocket/Getty Images
The course and timeline of the eruption can be reconstructed based on archaeological excavations and two letters from Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus. [8] At around 1 pm on the first day of eruption, Mount Vesuvius began spewing volcanic material thousands of metres into the sky.
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As ash and lava spewed out of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., everything stopped for people in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The devastating volcanic eruption was visible to the occupants of ...
The 400s BC eruption of the Bridge River Vent in British Columbia, Canada. The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii, Italy. It was the prototypical Plinian eruption. The 180 AD Lake Taupo eruption in New Zealand. The 946 eruption of Paektu Mountain in China / North Korea. The 1257 eruption of Mount Samalas in Lombok, Indonesia.
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