Timeline of Salerno
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Salerno in the Campania region of Italy. == Prior to 20th century == 197 BCE - Roman colony Salernum founded at site of former Etruscan town Irnthi.(it) 79 CE - Salerno was buried by the rain of ash and debris of the eruption of Vesuvius that razed Pompeii and Herculaneum to the ground 5th-7th C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Salerno established.