This paper presents the results of a historical study carried out in the frame of Task 12 of the V3 INGV-DPC Project “Multi-disciplinary analysis of the relationships between tectonic structures and volcanic activity”. The aim of the study was to collect historical data with which to compile an integrated catalogue of the eruptions occurred on the Vulcano island and the earthquakes located in the area of the Aeolian Islands, the Gulf of Patti and the north-eastern Sicilian coast. Before the study, the amount of knowledge on Vulcano historical eruptions and Aeolian seismicity was both poor and based on very old studies (the latest was published in 1922), while the historical earthquakes of north-eastern Sicily have been studied in the last thirty years. This study collected more than 200...