4 December 1639
Transit of Venus Observed
Crabtree independently observes the 1639 transit of Venus after Horrocks alerts him to the predicted event.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Broughton in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Crabtree independently observes the 1639 transit of Venus after Horrocks alerts him to the predicted event.
Provenance
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