Solar Eclipse Calendar History

Solar Eclipse Calendar History. The oldest eclipse records found date back to 1223 bce, in ugarit (now syria), written down on a clay tablet. The maps are broken down into 20 year intervals and.

All eclipses whose path of totality or annularity passes through the land territory of the current fifty u.s. During the 20th century, there were 228 solar eclipses of which 78 were partial, 73 were annular, 71 were total and 6 were hybrids between total and annular eclipses.