Halley's Comet appears in the sky in …
Years: 1066 - 1066
April
Halley's Comet appears in the sky in April 1066, and is widely reported throughout Europe.
Contemporary accounts connect the comet's appearance with the succession crisis in England.
Locations
People
- Ealdred
- Edith of Wessex
- Edward the Confessor
- Harald Hardrada
- Harold Godwinson
- Tostig Godwinson
- William the Conqueror
Groups
- Anglo-Saxons
- Welsh people
- Danes (Scandinavians)
- Normandy, Duchy of
- Normans
- Norway, independent Kingdom of
- England, (Anglo-Saxon) Kingdom of
- England, (Norman) Kingdom of
