when did the eruption of mount vesuvius occur
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in modern-day Italy, erupted in 79 AD in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history. Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger, a Roman administrator and poet.[1] The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruption.