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- 1. Watch with me one hour
- 2. 1492 'thunder stone' Ensisheim Meteor
- 3. Lisbon, Portugal, Earthquake-1755
- 4. Laki or Lakagígar 1783,... Dark Day 1789
- 5. Krakatoa 1883
- 6. Tunguska Explosion Heralding World... War 1 1908
- 7. Dramatic Years 1947-1948
- 8. Surtsey Volcano 1963-1973
- 9. Earthquakes in Divers places... 1988-1989
- 10. 20 Years of Change 1989-2009
- 11. The Future
2) 1492 'thunder stone' Ensisheim Meteor
On November 7, 1492, the people about Ensisheim, Alsace heard a thundercap from a clear sky and a 127kg stone (reduced to 56kg by chipping) struck a nearby wheat field. (Alsace, now in France, was in the Holy Roman Empire). This becomes the first well documented meteor.
Maximilian (1459-1519) who was the son of Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III heard about the 'thunderstone' as he was leading his army toward Ensisheim to take on the French. He came to Ensisheim to ponder the portent of the stone. German scholar Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) publicist for Maximilian wrote broadsheets saying the stone was a sign for Maximilian's victory over the French. Maximilian won the battle of Salins against larger French forces. The next year he became Holy Roman Emperor when his father died.
There were several woodcuts made. One illustrated Brant's broadsheet. Contemporary Italian priest Sigismondo Tizio (1458-1528) included a report and a picture of the event in his Historia Senesium 'History of Siena': “the immense portent...a great stone fell out of the sky, triangular in shape, charred the colour of metallic ore, and accompanied by crashing thunder and lightning..” http://adsabs.harvard.edu/
Maximilian ordered the stone be fixed to the wall of the Ensisheim parish church. It remained there 300 years and was only taken to a national museum in 1793 during the French revolution.
More appropriately Albert Durer living in nearby Basel (Switzerland), who may have seen the meteor, painted it on the back of a panel of Jerome (Latin translator of the Catholic Bible and polemic supporter of orthodoxy). www.si.edu/opa/
Maximilian was encouraged on a line of action which eventually weakened both his Holy Roman Empire and the papacy. In 1493-4 Maximilian married a daughter of the Duke of Milan to expand his power in Italy. This brought French intervention and the Italian Wars. Maximilian was forced to give Switzerland independence. Durer's painting proved to be correct, the stone struck Jerome's papacy on its back.
But 1492 was important on a number of counts.
On March 31 Ferdinand and Isabella signed the Alhambra decree expelling all Jews from Spain unless they converted to Catholicism, in force from July 31. On December 31 Jews were also expelled from Sicily. (The event was marked by the 4 'blood red' moons of 1493 and 1494 see here.)
In perfect symmetry when the Old world is
closed to Jews (and other true servants), the New World is opened. On
December 5 Christopher Columbus, on a voyage backed by Jews, possibly
with the aim of finding them a new haven, becomes the first known
European to set foot on Hispaniola, and some of his crew settle
there. Later Columbus returns to Jamaica, which becomes settled by
'conversos' and openly a Jewish centre when the British gain control
in 1655. A song has memorialised 1492, as when “Columbus sailed
the ocean blue” and America has claimed Columbus as its
European discoverer.
There may be a specific reference to the events of 1492 in the Bible. It occurs after Constantinople was conquered in 1453, by the Ottomans use of cannon, prefigured in Revelation Chapter 9. It occurs before Chapter 11 speaking of the 1572 Massacre of the Hugeonots and the 1685 revoking of the Edict of Nantes. Between those there is thunder,
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that lives for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: (Revelation 10:4-6)
The thunder, and the pronouncement that there would be 'time no longer' referred to an answer to the prayers of the servants for judgement on their persecutor, and the preparation for end of the time periods of Daniel 12:7. 1492 was 1260 years from when Origen established theology and when episcopal ordination was introduced. Just as it took time for error to be established politically, so too it took time to prepare for its downfall. The stone that fell in 1492 begun events, and was rightly claimed by the authorities of the French Revolution 300 years later in 1793.
It seems appropriate that a great 'thunderstone' is sent to the junction of the Holy Roman Empire and France heralding the freedom of protestant Switzerland, hurled, so to speak, at the feet of the next Roman Emperor, near Basle which was the very place where later the first Zionist congress would prepare for the state of Israel.
As a post script, in the era of the enlightenment some doubted stones could fall from heaven (space), and therefore doubted the veracity of the accounts of the Ensisheim meteor. But in 1794 on June 16 in Siena, in “history's most consequential fall”, many people including university scholars and even British tourists witnessed a shower of stones of up to 3kg fall in Siena. They were heralded by the appearance of an extremely high, dark cloud with sparks, smoke, sluggish red lightning and a loud explosion. It occurred 18 hours after Mt. Vesuvius erupted http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/
In 1794 as part of Revolutionary French offensives, Napoleon Bonaparte becomes a general in February and leads the forces who capture Piedmont's Omeglia from the Genoans on April 18 (in Italy). By June, Revolutionary France was beginning to make headway and they pushed the Austrians from Ostend by July 1 and by July 8 capture of Brussels, and they go on to occupy Cologne. A meteorite fell in Yorkshire in 1795 on December 13th, which scientists used to confirm the Siena shower was from the heavens. By 1795 Napoleon rose to prominence, and became a problem to the British, as in that year the Protestant Irish sought French help causing the French in 1796 to send ships to Ireland against Britain.
This as an aside, confirmed that the thunderstone of 1492 heralded the fall in influence of the Holy Roman Empire. For them there was soon to be 'time no longer'. The new world was to be opened for the servants to prosper. There was a great earthquake that heralded the earthquake of the French Revolution...
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