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28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

28th May 2020
Tagged as: Anatolia, Ancient, Ancient Greece, Eclipse, Herodotus, Lydia, Media, Middle East, Philosophy, Science, Thales

A solar eclipse during the Battle of Halys led to a truce between the kingdoms of Media and Lydia, making it the earliest historical event that can be precisely dated.

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29th February 1504: Christopher Columbus uses knowledge of a lunar eclipse to secure supplies while stranded on Jamaica

29th February 2020
Tagged as: Astronomy, Caribbean, Columbus, Eclipse, Jamaica, New World

Christopher Columbus used knowledge of a forthcoming lunar eclipse to fool Jamaican natives into providing his stranded crew with provisions.

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28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

29th February 1504: Christopher Columbus uses knowledge of a lunar eclipse to secure supplies while stranded on Jamaica

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th July 1947: The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle goes into production in the USSR

5th July 1948: Launch of the National Health Service in England and Wales

4th July 1950: Radio Free Europe broadcasts for the first time

3rd July 1938: World speed record for steam locomotives set by Number 4468 Mallard at just under 126mph

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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