{"slug": "mount-etna", "label": "Mount Etna", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Etna", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16990", "qid": "Q16990", "description": "active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [-474, 1971], "span_label": ["475 BCE", "1971 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 10}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-italy", "label": "Kingdom of Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "malta", "label": "Malta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "venice", "label": "Venice", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -474, "year_label": "475 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The first recorded eruption of Mount Etna occurs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129359#Greece", "title": "475 BC", "revid": 1350129359, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": 1496, "year_label": "1496 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber, a description of a journey to Mount Etna, is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius, the first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo) and with early adoption of the semicolon (dated 1495 according to the more veneto).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631969#January–March", "title": "1496", "revid": 1371631969, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – Mount Etna erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366419040#January–March", "title": "1669", "revid": 1366419040, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1693, "year_label": "1693 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – The Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy, causing a devastating earthquake that kills 60,000 people in Sicily and Malta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343170745#January–March", "title": "1693", "revid": 1343170745, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 25", "text": "November 25 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, and kills 69 people in the village of Bronte.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366016136#October–December", "title": "1843", "revid": 1366016136, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "May 18", "text": "18 May — Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna volcano on Sicily, following a powerful summit explosion. The eruption builds a row of pyroclastic cones, the largest of which is named Monte Gemmellaro (in honour to the Gemmellaro family of volcanologists from Catania who studied Etna in the 19th century). A lava stream comes very close to Nicolosi. Eruptions continue to 7 June 1886.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1270650931#May", "title": "1886 in Italy", "revid": 1270650931, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1892, "year_label": "1892 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 8", "text": "8 July – Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna vulcano in Sicily. Eruptions would continue to 29 December 1892. A spectacular row of pyroclastic cones was formed named Monti Silvestri, in honour of the Italian volcanologist Orazio Silvestri (1835 – 1890).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315156086#July", "title": "1892 in Italy", "revid": 1315156086, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 11", "text": "September 11 – An eruption of Mount Etna on Sicily sends a lava stream 2,000 feet wide and four feet deep, and leaves 20,000 homeless, between Linguaglossa and Randazzo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359046811#September", "title": "1911 in Italy", "revid": 1359046811, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#May–June", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 18", "text": "18 June – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315156673#Events", "title": "1923 in Italy", "revid": 1315156673, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#April", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › April"}}]}