Excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii
1738–1748 · Event
Bourbon engineers begin tunnelling into buried Herculaneum (1738) and Pompeii (1748), making the Bay of Naples the climax of the Grand Tour.
On these timelines: Roman History, Italy (post-476 CE), Master, Arts and Thoughts, The Enlightenment
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- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Caesar's dictatorship (49 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Founding of Rome (traditional) (753 BCE)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
Around 1738
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- Salem witch trials (1692)
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