Editing HistoryTimelineLayer:Historically significant solar eclipses

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It is said that Ho and Hi, the Drunk Astronomers failed to predict this eclipse. (story may be fictious);;;;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 [[Assyria]]n sources and providing an absolute [[chronology of the ancient Near East]];;;;06.15.-763;;
Archilochus' Eclipse;;;;04.06.-648;;
Allegedly predicted by [[Thales of Miletus|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 Tale of Igor's Campaign|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 prominence]]s.;;;;05.01.1185;;
This eclipse allowed the Byzantines, led by [[Isaac II Angelos]], to make a counteroffensive against rebels attacking [[Thrace]].;;;;04.21.1186;;


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