{"id":4984,"date":"2026-05-28T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:48:37","slug":"a-solar-eclipse-ended-a-battle-in-585-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4984","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse Ended a Battle in 585 BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSggJ2SYyOKCCE4LpR8qMatkmAwkxmt9RUS-rj_iwc5p7Q49te_Wg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"116\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Solar Eclipse<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Solar eclipse ended a battle in 585 BC<\/strong>. The Medes were battling the Lydians in the Battle of Halys in what is now Turkey. \u00a0The two sides decided the eclipse was a sign from the gods that battle had to stop. A truce was hastily arranged, and the daughter of the king of Lydia married the son of the king of Medea. Children could learn more about solar eclipses at: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/eclipse-snap\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar Eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar eclipse ended a battle in 585 BC. The Medes were battling the Lydians in the Battle of Halys in what is now Turkey. \u00a0The two sides decided the eclipse was a sign from the gods that battle had to stop. A truce was hastily arranged, and the daughter of the king of Lydia married <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4984' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5581,2238,2237,5580,2236,2235,2239],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-585-bc","tag-battle-of-halys","tag-lydians","tag-may-28","tag-medes","tag-solar-eclipse-ended-a-battle","tag-turkey","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24851,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions\/24851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}