"You mean like having the eruption of Vesuvius occur c. 1631 C.E. Which faces the problem of having Pliny the Younger's account, which was printed before 1631 in Western Europe. Copies of said editions still exist with the dates. So this eruption was described before it happenned!? No doubt this little problem is handeled by saying "forgery" and "fraud" over and over again."
-- I didn't reallize how many times this volcano has erupted. There really was a destructive 1631 eruption. I don't know the impact zone; Perhaps it's possible this eruption covered Pompeii as well... however, this is purely speculative on my part.
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Later eruptions from the 3rd to the 19th Century

The March 1944 eruption of Vesuvius, by Jack Reinhardt, B24 tailgunner in the USAAF during WWII. Since the eruption of 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. The eruptions of 512 were so severe that those inhabiting the slopes of Vesuvius were granted exemption from taxes by Theodoric the Great, the Gothic king of Italy. Further eruptions were recorded in 787, 968, 991, 999, 1007 and 1036 with the first recorded lava flows. The volcano became quiescent at the end of the 13th century and in the following years it again became covered with gardens and vineyards as of old. Even the inside of the crater was filled with shrubbery.

Vesuvius entered a new and particularly destructive phase in December 1631, when a major eruption buried many villages under lava flows, killing around 3,000 people. Torrents of boiling water were also ejected, adding to the devastation. Activity thereafter became almost continuous, with relatively severe eruptions occurring in 1660, 1682, 1694, 1698, 1707, 1737, 1760, 1767, 1779, 1794, 1822, 1834, 1839, 1850, 1855, 1861, 1868, 1872, 1906, 1926, 1929, and 1944.
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History and eruptions

Old Picture of 1631 eruption:


You can read a first-hand-account of the 1631 eruption, here.



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