What are some of the more famous volcanic eruptions?

about 1500 B.C. - the destgruction of Thera in the eastern Mediterranean and the end of the Minoan civilization (which is the basis for the legend of Atlantics)
A.D. 79 - eruption of Vesuvius buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculeneum
1783 - eruption of Laki, Iceland, cuaused a severe faminine, which resulted in the deaths of 20 percent of the population of Iceland
1815 - Tambora, Indonesia, the largest historical eruption
1883 - Krakatau, Indonesia, resulted in a huge tsunmai, which drowned 36,000 people
1912 - Katmai, Alaska, largest eruption of the 20th century

John Dvorak