Canterbury monks see lunar event
June 18, 1178
Five Canterbury monks, watching a new crescent moon, reported it split and spewed fire. Modern astronomers have linked the sighting to a possible meteoric impact that may have formed the young crater Giordano Bruno on the lunar far side - one of the only pre-modern eyewitness records of a lunar impact.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.