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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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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

2nd September 31 BCE: Marc Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

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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