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Incidents of Sun and Moon Eclipses in Medieval Times
From the Ibn al-Athir, Ibn al-Kathir and The Anglo Saxon Chronicles

Eclipses in the medieval world were seen as omens of bad things to come. The effects that they had on the earth and the darkness that they brought were frightful for the layman of the medieval times. Many have chronicled their dates. The on going table below will attempt to gather dates of eclipses from as many medieval sources as possible. Should the you know of any that are not listed below, please let me know. Eclipses would obviously not correlate between east and west due to the angle of view, but they remain dates when the medieval world, at least in part, was in a state of terror and anticipation of bad things to come.

Islamic and medieval coinage of a certain era included a lot of astronomical and astrological symbols. This page as well as others on this site, may help the researcher understand the significance of these symbols in given years when significant astronomical events took place.

Source	Event	Year AD	(S)un / (M)oon	Year AH	Event
ASC	This year the sun was eclipsed, on the eleventh of May	11/05/644	S	28/06/23	في هذه السنة انكسفت الشمس في 11\|5
ASC	the sun was eclipsed	733	S	114	في هذه السنة انكسفت الشمس
ASC	This year was the moon eclipsed, between cock-crowing and dawn, on the fifth day before the calends of April	05/04/795	M	10/01/179	وفيها انخسف القمر
ASC	This year was the moon eclipsed, at eight in the evening, on the seventh day before the calends of February	07/02/800	M	8/01/184	وفيها انخسف القمر
ASC	This year was the moon eclipsed, at dawn, on the thirteenth day before the calends of January	13/01/802	M	05/01/186	وفيها انخسف القمر
ASC	This year was the moon eclipsed, on the first of September	01/09/806	M	14/10/190	وفيها انخسف القمر
ASC	This year was the sun eclipsed, precisely at eleven in the morning, on the seventh day before the calends of August	07/08/807	S	29/09/191	في هذه السنة انكسفت الشمس
IA Zahabi IJ	In this year in two nights before the end of Dhu al-Hijja the sun was eclipsed so that two thirds of it were covered and its light was dwarfed	25/06/819	S	203	في هذه السنة انكسفت الشمس لليلتين بقيتا من ذي الحجة حتى ذهب ضوءها وغاب اكثر من ثلثيها‏.‏
ASC	This year was the moon eclipsed, on mid-winter's mass-night	20/12/827	M	27/09/212	وفيها انخسف القمر ليلة قداس هنتصف الشتاء
IA	This year in Jumada I, the sun was totally eclipsed and the stars appeared and the world got dark and the birds settled	May 867 (S) 14 December 867 (M)	S & M	253	وفيها، في جمادى الأولى، انكسفت الشمس جميعها، فظهرت الكواكب، وأظلمت الدنيا، وسقطت الطيور الطائرة وفي ليلة أربع عشرة من ذي الحجة انخسف القمر جميعه
IA	In this year the moon was eclipsed completely	867-868	M	254	وفيها انكسف القمر كسوفًا كليًا لم يبق منه شيء ظاهر‏.
IK	On the night of the fourteenth of Shawwal most of the moon was eclipsed	3/09/871	M	257	وفي ليلة الرابع عشر من شوال من هذه السنة، كسف القمر وغاب أكثره‏
ASC	The same year also the sun was eclipsed one hour of the day	879	S	265-266	في هذه السنة انكسفت الشمس
Zahabi IA	In Muharram of this year the sun and the moon were eclipsed	July 882	S & M	269	وفي المحّرم انكسفت الشّمس والقمر
IA	In Shawwal the moon was eclipsed and the people of Dabil woke up and the world was still dark	12/893- 01/894	M	280	‏وفي شوال انكسف القمر واصبح اهل دبيل والدنيا مظلمة ‏
ASC	This year the moon was eclipsed	904	M	291-292	وفيها انخسف القمر
IA	This year the moon was totally eclipsed on Friday the 14 left of Rabi' I. It was eclipsed totally again on 14 left of Shawwal	12 February 936 5 September 936	2M	324	وفيها انخسف القمر جميعه ليلة الجمعة لأربع عشرة خلت من ربيع الأوّل، وانخسف جميعه أيضاً لأربع عشرة خلت من شوّال.
IA	This year the moon was totally eclipsed	959-960	M	348	وفيها انخسف القمر جميعه
IA	In the middle of Rabi' I, the moon was totally eclipsed	23 April 962	M	351	في منتصف ربيع الأول أيضاً، انخسف القمر جميعه
IA	This year on Saturday the 14 of Safar the moon was totally eclipsed	19 February 965	M	354	في هذه السنة ليلة السبت رابع عشر صفر انخسف القمر جميعه
IA	The moon was totally eclipsed on Saturday 13 Sha'ban and it set eclipsed	24 July 966	M	355	وفيها انخسف القمر جميعه ليلة السبت ثالث عشر شعبان، وغاب منخسفاً
IA	The night of 14 Rajab the moon was totally eclipsed and it set eclipsed	2 June 969	M	358	ليلة الخميس رابع عشر رجب، انخسف القمر جميعه، وغاب منخسفاً
IA IJ	In Jumada I of this year the sun was eclipsed completely and the stars appeared and the world was dark and the bird fell	05/1061	S	453	وفيها في جمادى الاولى انكسفت الشمس جميعها فظهرت الكواكب واظلمت الدنيا وسقطت الطيور الطائرة‏.
IA	In this year the sun was eclipsed completely	1087-1088	S	480	وفيها كسفت الشمس كسوفاً كلياً
IK IA	On the fourth of Safar the moon was eclipsed completely	6/06/1117	M	511	في رابع صفر منها انكسف القمر كسوفاً كليا‏
IA	On Friday the twenty ninth of Ramadan in the middle of the morning, the sun was eclipsed completely and the world became dark like it was night and the stars appeared	11/04/1176	S	571	في هذه السنة في شهر رمضان انكسفت الشمس جميعها واظلمت الارض حتى بقي الوقت كانه ليل مظلم وظهرت الكواكب وكان ذلك ضحوة النهار يوم الجمعة التاسع والعشرين منه ‏
IA	Mention of several events from the night of the middle of Rabi II: ...The moon was eclipsed around the middle of the night and it set eclipsed ...In this year also on the twenty-ninth the sun was eclipsed at evening time and it set eclipsed	29/09/1178 M 13/10/1178 S	M & S	574	ذكر عدة حوادث ليلة النصف من ربيع الاخر انكسف القمر نحو نصف الليل الاخير وغاب منكسفًا‏.‏ وفيها ايضًا في التاسع والعشرين انكسفت الشمس وقت العصر فغربت منكسفة‏.‏
IA	The moon was totally eclipsed on the Tuesday 15 Safar	15 June 1215	M	612	وفيها انخسف القمر ليلة الثلاثاء خامس عشر صفر
IA	This year the moon was eclipsed twice. The first of these was on the night of 14 Safar	13 February 1226	2M	623	في هذه السنة انخسف القمر مرتين: أولاهما ليلة رابع عشر صفر،
IK	... On the morning of Sunday the twenty-eighth of the month the sun was eclipsed before noon	09/11/1341	S	742	وفي صبيحة يوم الأحد الثامن والعشرين من الشهر المذكور كسفت الشمس قبل الظهر،

IK= Ibn al-Kathir, al-Bidaya Wa al-Nihaya
IA= Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil Fi al-Tarikh
ASC= Anglo Saxon Chronicles
Zahabi = al-Zahabi, Tarikh al-Islam
IJ = Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam

While Arab historians sited a few similar incidents, there was no concurrences between the Arabic histories and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles.

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