HALLEY'S COMET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9642, 6 November 1909, Page 7

HALLEY'S COMET.

HISTORIC EVENTS DURIiNG ITS VISITS. Halley's great comet, which will be seen next year with the naked eye, and is already making its mark ow sensitised photograph plates in the observatories of the world, has, says the "Daily Mail,'" in the past been responsiple for many Strang., interesting, and terrifying world event*. History records the return of Halley's comet 28 times during the past 2,.000' years. The following events oc curred. during or elcsely followed the apparition of the comet:— 8..C. 20.. —Defeat of the Carthaginians by Home. End of the first Punic war.. 163.—Judas Maccabaeus occupied Jerusalem. 87* —Civil: war in Rome, the city taken and retaken. 12..—Germany invaded by Drusus. A.D. 66.—Vespasian began the war which ended in the destruction of* Jerusalem by Titus. 296. Britain recovered by Constantius. 375.—1ta1y invaded by the Huns. 452. —Gaul and Italy invaded by Attila. 531.—Fifty years of plague began in Persia. 610. —Mahomet began to preach in Mecca. 1066. —Norman invasion of England. 1146. —Second crusade 1221.—Conquest of Khorassan and Persia by Jenghiz. Khan. 1378.—Clement VII, anti-Pope, at Avignon; 40 years' schism in the Church of Rome began. 1456.—Turks, having taken Constantinople, threatened Europe. Mahommed 11. defeated at Bel • grade by John Hunniades. ' 1531. —Inundation of Holland. Earthquake' at Lisbon. 1607. —Spanish fleet destroyed by the Dutch at Gibraltar. 1758,—Prussia ovverun by Russians. Birth of Nelson. 1835.—Political crisis in England.