Location:
Italy
Coordinates:
40.7864, 14.0856
Events at Misenum (2)
79
ID: 5935
August 24, 79
Pliny the Elder launches rescue mission - commands Roman fleet at Misenum, sails toward eruption to save friends and observe phenomenon
ID: 5935
79
ID: 5942
August 25, 79
Pliny the Younger survives at Misenum - age 17, writes detailed eyewitness account to Tacitus, only surviving scientific record of eruption
ID: 5942