<P> Mount Vesuvius , a stratovolcano 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 . The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruptions . </P>
<P> Mount Vesuvius , a stratovolcano 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 . The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruptions . </P>
when did mt vesuvius erupt and destroy pompeii
when did mt vesuvius erupt and destroy pompeii
in 79 AD
in 79 AD