Notable Volcanic Eruptions.
Mount Vesuvius, 79 AD, Italy. A stratovolcano eruption that buried the Roman city of Pompeii in ash and volcanic debris within hours — probably the most famous single eruption in history, and a vivid real-world example of exactly the explosive, high-viscosity-magma eruption style described on the Volcanism page.
Mount Tambora, 1815, Indonesia. The deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded history — tens of thousands killed directly, with total deaths (including subsequent famine) estimated near 90,000. Threw enough ash and gas into the stratosphere to measurably cool the entire planet, causing 1816 to become known as the "Year Without a Summer" across the Northern Hemisphere — a striking illustration of how a single eruption's effects can reach far beyond the volcano itself.
Krakatoa, 1883, Indonesia. One of the loudest sounds ever recorded in human history, reportedly heard nearly 3,000 miles away. The eruption's tsunamis killed roughly 36,000 people, and its ash cloud caused vivid, unusually colorful sunsets worldwide for years afterward.
Mount St. Helens, 1980, USA. The most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history — an initial earthquake destabilized the volcano's bulging north flank, triggering a massive landslide followed by a powerful lateral (sideways) explosive blast, a genuinely unusual eruption style compared to the typical straight-upward eruptions described on the Volcanism page, and one that fundamentally changed how volcanologists understand stratovolcano hazards.
Mount Pinatubo, 1991, Philippines. One of the largest eruptions of the 20th century, ejecting enough sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to measurably cool global temperatures for roughly a year afterward — another concrete example of a single eruption's planet-wide reach.
Worth cross-linking: each of these ties back to the Volcanism page's shield/stratovolcano/cinder-cone framework (all five of these are stratovolcanoes, worth noting explicitly as a pattern — the explosive, high-viscosity-magma type is disproportionately responsible for history's most famous and destructive eruptions, for exactly the reasons the Volcanism page already explains).