HistoryTimelineLayer:Historically significant solar eclipses
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sources: List of solar eclipses in antiquity List of solar eclipses in the Middle Ages events: It is said that Ho and Hi, the Drunk Astronomers failed to predict this eclipse. (story may be fictitious);;;;10.22.-2137;; Early Mesopotamian records;;;;05.03.-1375;; Known as Mursili's eclipse, could provide an absolute chronology of the ancient Near East;;;;06.24.-1312;; Early Chinese eclipse;;;;06.05.-1302;; Odyssey Eclipse;;;;04.16.-1178;; China's 'Double-Dawn' Eclipse;;;;04.21.-899;; Attested in Assyrian sources and providing an absolute chronology of the ancient Near East;;;;06.15.-763;; Archilochus' Eclipse;;;;04.06.-648;; Allegedly predicted by Thales\; occurred during the Battle of the Eclipse.;;;;05.28.-585;; The Siege of Larisa, firstly recorded by Xenophon;;;;05.19.-557;; (Or October 2, 480 BC) Eclipse occurring prior to Xerxes' first march against Greece. The exact dating has been debated, as the writings of Herodotus (who chronicled the eclipse) gives a date for which there was no eclipse visible in that area of the world.;;;;02.17.-478;; (Or February 17, 478 BC) Eclipse occurring prior to Xerxes' first march against Greece. The exact dating has been debated, as the writings of Herodotus (who chronicled the eclipse) gives a date for which there was no eclipse visible in that area of the world.;;;;10.02.-480;; Recorded by Thucydides\; Pericles shows his Greek Army that the eclipse was not much more than a covering of the sun by something bigger than his cloak.;;;;08.03.-431;; 8th year of the Peloponnesian War.;;;;03.21.-424;; Thought by astronomers to be the eclipse preceding the Christianization of Iberia by Mirian III of Iberia.;;;;05.06.319;; Believed to be one of multiple signs leading to an inscription on the Rök runestone which speculated a climate crisis of extreme winter.;;;;11.30.810;; Mentioned in the epic poem about Igor Svyatoslavich's army campaign against the Polovtsians. Also recorded in the Laurentian Codex\; the description there is the first record of solar prominences.;;;;05.01.1185;; This eclipse allowed the Byzantines, led by Isaac II Angelos, to make a counteroffensive against rebels attacking Thrace.;;;;04.21.1186;;