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HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY.

Events Which Startled World Fol-
lowed Close on Its Flight.

From the London Mall.

Halley's great comet, which will be seen
in the spring of this year with the naked
eye, and is already making its mark on
sensitized photograph plates in the ob-
servatories of the world, has in the past
been held responsible for many strange,
interesting and terrifying world events.

History records the return of Halley's
comet twenty-eight times during the past
2,000 years. The following events occur0
red during or closely following, the ap-
parition of the comet:

B.C.
240 - Defeat of the Carthaginians by Rome. End
of the first Punic war.
163 - Judas Maccabaeus occupied Jerusalem.
87 - Civil war in Rome, the city taken and re-
taken.
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 - Italy invadede by the Huns.
452 - Gaul and Italy invaded by Attila.
531 - Fifty years of plague began in Persia.
610 - Mohammed 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 of the church of Rome be-
gun
1456 - Turks, having taken Constantinople, threat-
ened Europe. Mohammed II defeated at
Belgrade by John Hunniades.
1531 - Inundation of Holland. Earthquake at Lis-
bon.
1607 - Spanish fleet destroyed by the Dutch at
Gibraltar.
1758 - Prussia overrun by Russians. Birth of
Nelson.
1835 - Political crisis in England.