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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Astronomical chronology, or astronomical dating, is a technical method of dating events or artifacts that are associated with astronomical phenomena. Written records of historical events that include descriptions of astronomical phenomena have done much to clarify the chronology of the Ancient Near East; works of art which depict the configuration of the stars and planets and buildings which are oriented to the rising and setting of celestial bodies at a particular time have all been dated through astronomical calculations. The use of descriptions of astronomical phenomena to date historical events began in the sixteenth century, a time of a renewed humanistic interest in history and of increasingly precise astronomical tables. In the cases of unique astronomical events like eclipses, since eclipses are relatively infrequent events, they can be dated to the exact date. When the circumstances are not exact and there are several possible eclipses, one can often use other details such as the month of the eclipse or the position of other stars and planets to identify the specific eclipse.

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