Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius buries Pompeii and Herculaneum

Category
Disaster
Place
Roman Empire
Date
79
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
Mt. Vesuvius is located in the Bay of Naples. The apparently extinct volcano caused earth tremors for several days and then erupted on August 24, 79. It created a layer of pumice 10 feet (3 m) thick. Plaster casts have been made of the bodies within the lava. About 20,000 people died. [Furtado: 1001 Days]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
-27
180
Roman Empire
Disaster
-3800
2020
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