356 _ Star-Showers of youn Times. 
(20.) A. D. 1029. “In the year 420, in the month Radjab, 
[beginning July 16, A. D. 1029,] fell many stars with great noise 
and very vivid light.” oe ee 
“ Dans l’an 420, au mois de Redscheb, il tomba beaucoup d’ 
étoiles, avec accompagnement d’un bruit extraordinaire et de la- 
miéres tres vives.’—Soyuti, Hist. Cair. fol. 338. First quoted 
by Von Hammer: Comptes Rend. 1837, I, p. 293. - Cited also 
by M. Fraehn. ~ 
Was this a shower of shooting stars, or only the fall of a num- 
ber of meteoric stones ? : Sucks 
(21.) A. D. 1060. In the Comptes Rendus of the French 
Academy of Sciences, (1837, I, 532,) it is stated that M. de Para- 
vey had found in an ancient history of Anjou, an account of a re- 
-markable fall of shooting stars which happened A. D. 1060. The 
date of the month was not mentioned in the history. It is to be 
hoped that the passage will be given in full. 
_(22.). A. D. 1090, “ M. Muncke states that in the year 1090; 
_ according to the chronicles of that period, shooting stars appeared 
in considerable numbers, during several consecutive nights.”— 
Trans. from M. Quetelel’s Catalogue des Principales ‘Appari- 
tions d’Etoiles Filantes: (Brux, 1839,).p. 28; where reference 1s 
made to Gehler’s Dict. of Physics, viii, 1025. 
‘This may possibly be a typographical error for A. D. 1096. 
(23.) A. D. 1094. “ At this period, so many stars fell. from 
heaven that they could not be counted. In France the inhabit- 
ants were amazed to sce one of them of great size, fall to the earth, 
and they poured water on the spot, when to their exceeding sh 
tonishment, smoke issued from the ground with a hissing Hols? 
“A. D. 1094. Rex autem Willielmus: [Victor] omnes: fines 
Walliz hostiliter ingressus * * * HEodem tempore tot stella de 
colo cadere vise sunt, quod non poterant numerari. Inter quas, 
cum unam magnam quidem Jabi in Gallia gens stuperet, notatoque 
loco, aquam ibi fudisset, fumum cum stridoris sono de terra exire, 
obstupuit vehementer.”—Matth. Paris Mon. Alb. Angli Hist. 
major, etc. fol. Lond. 1640, p. 18. i | 
“The year 1094 was very remarkable for the number and fash 
ion of gliding ‘stars, which seemed to dash together in manner of 
a conflict.”—Sir J. Hayward, cited in Guthrie's History of 2s 
land. fol. 1744. Volwi, p, 423... 
It is not improbable that these events belong to the next yeal: 
