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(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 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;; | (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. | 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;; | 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;; | Thought by astronomers to be the eclipse preceding the [[Christianization of Iberia]] by [[Mirian III of Iberia]].;;;;05.06.319;; | ||