Astrognome Scrapbook Solar Eclipse March 16th 1485

Solar Eclipse March 16^th 1485

On March 16^th during meal time the Sun was totally eclipsed. According to reports the eclipse produced such horrid darkness on our horizon for the space of an half an hour that the stars appeared in the sky.

Crazed birds fell from the sky and bleating flocks and fearful herds of oxen unexpectedly began to return from their pastures to their stables