I. The Epoch of November 11th–14th.
1. 1548, November 6th. A very large detonating meteor was seen at Mansfield, Thuringia, at two o'clock in the morning. The known rate of movement of the node brings this meteor within the November epoch.
2. 1624, November 7th. A large fire-ball was seen at Tubingen. The motion of the node brings this also within the epoch.
3. 1765, November 11th. A bright meteoric light was observed at Frankfort.
4. 1791, November 11th. A large meteor was seen at Göttingen and Lilienthal.
5. 1803, November 13th. A fire-ball, twenty-three miles high, was seen at London and Edinburgh.
6. 1803, November 13th. A splendid meteor was seen at Dover and Harts.
7. 1808, November 11th. A fire-ball was seen in England.
8. 1818, November 13th. A fire-ball was seen at Gosport.
9. 1819, November 13th. A fire-ball was seen at St. Domingo.
10. 1820, November 12th. A large detonating meteor was seen at Cholimschk, Russia.
11. 1822, November 12th. A fire-ball appeared at Potsdam.
12. 1828, November 12th. A meteor was seen in full sunshine at Sury, France.
13. 1831, November 13th. A fire-ball was seen at Bruneck.
14. 1831, November 13th. A brilliant meteor was seen in the North of Spain.
15. 1833, November 12th. A fire-ball was seen in Germany.
16. 1833, November 13th. A meteor, two-thirds the size of the moon, was seen during the great meteoric shower in the United States.
17. 1834, November 13th. A large fire-ball was seen in North America.
18. 1835, November 13th. Several aerolites fell near Belmont, Department de l'Ain, France.
19. 1836, November 11th. An aerolitic fall occurred at Macao, Brazil.
20. 1837, November 12th. A remarkable fire-ball was seen in England.
21. 1838, November 13th. A large fire-ball was seen at Cherbourg.
22. 1849, November 13th. An extraordinary meteor appeared in Italy. "Seen in the southern sky. Varied in color; a bright cloud visible one and a half hour after; according to some a detonation heard fifteen minutes after bursting. Seen also like a stream of fire between Tunis and Tripolis, where a shower of stones fell; some of them into the town of Tripolis itself."
23. 1849, November 13th. A large meteor was seen at Mecklenburg and Breslau.
24. 1856, November 12th. A meteoric stone fell at Trenzano, Italy.
25. 1866, November 14th. At Athens, Greece, a large number of bolides was seen by Mr. J. F. Julius Schmidt, during the shower of shooting-stars. One of these fire-balls was of the first class, and left a train which was visible one hour to the naked eye.