Modern Era · North America · Disaster
1902
Mount Pelee incinerates Saint-Pierre
May 8, 1902
On Martinique, the mountain that locals called peaceful exhaled a glowing cloud of superheated gas that rolled down at two hundred miles an hour. The Caribbean town of thirty thousand vanished in under a minute. Only two survivors emerged, one a prisoner in a stone cell. The volcano had coughed once and swallowed a city.
In context
Also in 1902 (4 other events on record)
- Boer War ends at Vereeniging · Africa · War
- Anglo-Japanese Alliance signed · East Asia · Politics
- First permanent movie theater opens · North America · Culture
- Aswan Low Dam completed · Africa · Technology
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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