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    AD 79 (LXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year...
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    major stratovolcano in Southern Italy, the best-known is its eruption in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest in history. Mount Vesuvius violently spewed...
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  • 79 may refer to: 79 (number) one of the years 79 BC, AD 79, 1979, 2079 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in Italy 79...
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    of an earlier, much higher structure. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae and...
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    of interior decoration leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD between stylistic shifts in Roman art during late Republican and Augustan...
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    70s (redirect from 70-79)
    decade that ran from January 1, AD 70, to December 31, AD 79. As the decade began, the First Jewish–Roman War continued: In AD 70, the Romans besieged and...
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  • constellation Andromeda Live Seventy Nine, an album by Hawkwind The years 79 BC, AD 79 or 1979 The number of the French department Deux-Sèvres The ASCII code...
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    Vespasianus (/ˈtaɪtəs/ TY-təs; 30 December 39 – 13 September AD 81) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his...
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  • 79 A.D. (Italian: Anno 79 - La distruzione di Ercolano, French: Les derniers jours d'Herculanum, also known as The Destruction of Herculaneum) is a 1962...
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    disasters, the most severe of which was the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which saw the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum be completely...
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    Pompeii (category 79 disestablishments)
    20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Largely preserved under the ash, Pompeii offers a unique snapshot of Roman...
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  • daughter of Herod Agrippa I (d. AD 79) Drusilla, princess of Mauretania Julius Archelaus Antiochus, prince of Commagene (d. AD 92) Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus...
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    city of Stabiae, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The castle, of the city it takes its name from, was erected around the...
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    Herculaneum (category 79 disestablishments)
    buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few...
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    which remain after being partially destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The house is known both for its frescoes and for the trove of wax tablets...
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  • earthquake may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the same two towns. The contemporary philosopher and dramatist...
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  • official (d. AD 54) Geng Yan, Chinese general of the Han dynasty (d. AD 58) Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, Roman politician and astrologer (d. AD 79) Bao Xuan...
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  • completes the curse poem Ibis. November 17 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. AD 79) September 15 – Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman general (b. 46 BC) Marcus...
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    200 BC - AD 600". The British Museum. 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-04-01. "World Timeline of Europe 200 BC-AD 400 Roman"...
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    Pliny the Elder (category Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
    Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander...
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  • Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (d. AD 79) Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician and pharmacologist (d. AD 90) Sextus Julius Frontinus, Roman general...
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    1st century (redirect from 1st century AD)
    spanning AD 1 (represented by the Roman numeral I) through AD 100 (C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the 1st century AD or 1st...
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  • Kalki 2898 AD (Telugu: [kəlkɪ]; stylised onscreen as KALKI 2898 – A. D) is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language epic science fiction film directed by Nag Ashwin...
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    Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius (destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius), along the north coast. Along with the island of Ischia...
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    Drusilla (daughter of Herod Agrippa) (category Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
    people known by name to have died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Her father had betrothed her to Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes...
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    In 1908, Barker suggested that Philodemus may have been the owner. In AD 79, the eruption of Vesuvius covered all of Herculaneum with up to 30 metres...
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    the amphitheatre around AD 70 and it was completed by his son Titus, who became emperor following Vespasian's death in AD 79. Titus' reign began with...
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    [reˈziːna]) was built on the volcanic material left by the eruption of Vesuvius (79 AD) that destroyed the ancient city of Herculaneum, from which the present...
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    0s (redirect from First decade AD)
    brother of Vespasian (d. AD 69) AD 9 November 17 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. AD 79) AD 1 Amanishakheto, queen of Kush (Nubia) AD 2 August 20 – Lucius Caesar...
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    Fortune favours the bold (category Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
    deciding to take his fleet and investigate the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, in the hope of helping his friend Pomponianus: "'Fortes' inquit 'fortuna...
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