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  Solar eclipse - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A solar eclipse of June 16, 763 BC mentioned in an Assyrian text is important for the Chronology of the Ancient Orient.
On June 4, 780 BC a solar eclipse was recorded in China
This eclipse occurred on June 15, 763 BC, with a magnitude of 62.5% at Rome.
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 Solar eclipse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A total eclipse of the Sun was visible from the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek island of (A Greek island west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king) Ithaca on April 16, 1178 BC.
A solar eclipse of June 16, 763 BC mentioned in an (An extinct language of the Assyrians regarded as a dialect of Akkadian) Assyrian text is important for the (Click link for more info and facts about Chronology of the Ancient Orient) Chronology of the Ancient Orient.
On June 4, 780 BC a solar eclipse was recorded in (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China
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 Solar eclipse
An annular eclipse of the Sun occurred at Sardis on February 17, 478 BC, while Xerxes was departing for his expedition against Greece, as Herodotus, VII, 37 recorded.
([Hind and Chambers, 1889: 323] considered this absolute date more than a century ago.) Herodotus (book IX, 10, book VIII, 131, and book IX, 1) reports that another solar eclipse was observed in Sparta during the next year, on August 1, 477 BC.
Its beginning took place at 6:49, its middle at 7:47 and its end at 8:51.) He was born on the 21st day of the month of Thoth.
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