Year	Day of month	Locality	Size or weight	Direction	Duration; rate; hour;	Remarks, &c
1700.	Jan. 7	Normandy	...	...	...	fireball.
*	Autumn	Jamaica	...	...	...	large meteor; aërolitic?. Autumn, St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica; large fiery body fell, making many deep holes in the ground, but no stones looked for. See Philosophical Transactions.
1704.*	Dec. 25	Barcelona, Spain	...	S.E to N.W	5 P.M.	Stone-fall; Poggendorff, viii. 1826, p. 46. Several.
1706.	Mar. 20	England	...	...	...	fireball.
*	June 7	Larissa, Macedonia	72 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall.
1708.	July 31	Sheerness	...	N.E to S.W.?	...	fireball; 50 miles above Sheerness.
1709.	Dec. 7	Zurich	...	...	...	ditto.
1710.	May 18	Leeds; Nottingham	large	...	...	bright as moon (17th May?, 12th May?).
1711.*	Mar. 31	Zurich	...	...	...	fireball and detonation.
	11	Switzerland	...	...	...	fireball.
1714.*	Oct. 4	Berne and Zurich	...	...	...	fireball?, with detonation.
1715.*	Apr. 11	Schellin, Pomerania	15 lbs.+½	...	2 P.M.	Stone-fall; Prussia.
1716.	Mar. 6	England	...	...	...	large bolide.
1717.?	?	Hungary	...	...	...	aërolitic fall; Poggendorff, iv. 1854, p. 33. Hungary; probably only the meteor of August 10, seen in Bohemia, Hungary, Prussia, &c. The Reports of the British Association of 1849, state that a stone fell, but this does not seem to be correct.
	Jan. 4	Quesnoy	...	...	...	fireball.
	Aug. 10	Schleswig; Bohemia	...	...	...	ditto.
1718.?	Mar. 24	Lethy, East Indies	...	...	1 P.M.	a large fiery mass fell and exploded on the ground. March 24. Lethy Island. A jelly-like mass, silvery and scaly, said to have been found; according to some authorities, the year 1728.
1719.	Feb. 22	Italy; Zurich	...	...	...	fireball.
*	Mar. 19	England; N. Europe	> moon	N.N.E to S.S.W.?	...	brilliant; oval; loud detonation over S. of England. March 19. Seen 65 miles over Hereford; burst? 70 miles high; v.=350 miles per minute; d.=1½ miles; seen all over Northern Europe. Halley calculated it at 150 miles high when first seen; 8000 feet d.; v.=5½ miles in a second. Another account gave 297 miles high.
1721.	Jan. 26	Switzerland	...	...	...	fireball.
	Mar. 15	Studgardt	...	...	...	fine reddish bolide (middle of March).
1722.	Feb. 1	Switzerland	...	...	...	fireball.
*	June 5	Freisingen, Bavaria	...	...	3½ P.M.	Stone-fall.
1723.	Jan. 6	Portugal	...	...	...	fireball.
*	June 22	Plescowitz, Bohemia	...	...	2 P.M.	Stone-fall; 33 picked up, one of 6 lbs.
1723.	Aug. 22	Schleswig	...	...	...	fireball
1725.*	July 3	Mixburg, Oxfordshire	20 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall.
	Oct. 22	Maryland	...	...	...	fireball; same as next?.
*	22	at sea, near Petapsko	...	...	2 P.M.	meteor, followed by a series of detonations, heard for 50 miles round. October 22. Flames seen in the zenith for 5'.
1726.	Jan. 1	Schleswig	...	...	...	fireball.
	Feb. 4	Regensburg	...	...	...	ditto.
1727.*	July 22	Lilaschitz, Bohemia	...	...	...	Stone-fall; several.
1728.	Mar. 29	Ober-Lausitz	...	...	...	fireball; or 28th March.
	30	Netherlands	...	...	...	ditto; same as last?.
	May 30	Campo-Major	...	...	...	ditto.
	Dec. 4	Nurenberg	...	...	...	ditto.
1729.	Apr. 19	Geneva	...	...	...	ditto.
	June 2	Switzerland	...	...	...	ditto.
	Aug. 23	Paris	...	...	...	ditto.
	Oct. 1	Sweden	...	...	...	ditto.
	16	Warsaw	...	...	...	ditto.
	Nov. 25	Tuscany	...	...	...	ditto.
1730.	Apr. 13	Ober-Schleswig	...	...	...	ditto.
	June 17	Neisse	...	...	...	ditto. July 17?
	Aug. 20	Ober-Lausitz	...	...	...	ditto.
1731.	Mar. 3	Upsala	...	...	...	ditto.
*	12	Halstead, Essex	...	...	...	Stone-fall and fireball.
1731.?	?	Lessay, Coutance, France	...	...	...	Stone-fall. Lessay, Coutance. Annales de Chimie, vol. lxxxv. p. 276. 1813.
1732.	Aug. 15	Springfield	...	...	...	fireball.
1733.	Aug.	England	large	E. to W.	...	ditto. August 15. Springfield, England. Aërolitic, according to Baumhauer, but, according to Kämtz, only a fireball, which fell into the Channel.
	Nov. 4	France	...	...	...	ditto.
	Dec. 8	S. England; Dorset	...	...	...	ditto, visible by daylight.
1734.	Mar. 13	London	...	...	...	fireball.
	Dec. 9	Regensburg	...	...	...	ditto.
1736.	Oct.?	Schleswig	...	...	...	ditto.
1737.	Nov.	Löwen?	...	...	...	ditto.
	?	N. America	...	...	...	ditto.
*	May 21	Adriatic Sea	...	...	...	aërolitic (according to Boguslawski's Catalogue).
*	Dec. 5	Kilkenny, Ireland	large	...	...	burst with a loud report.
	30	Grecian Archipelago	...	N. to S.	...	like a fiery cloud.
1738.	July 13	Paris	...	...	...	fireball; kept rising and falling by bounds till it vanished beneath the horizon.
?	Aug. 18	Carpentras, France	...	...	4½ P.M.	ditto; aërolitic?; no stone found. Carpentras and Champfort, near Avignon. See Oct. 18.
	28	England				fireball.
?	Oct. 18	Avignon	...	...	...	aërolitic? (according to Baumhauer's Catalogue). Avignon. Probably the same as Carpentras, August 18.
1739.*	June 3	Cambridge, New England	...	S. to N.	slow	with detonation; 70 miles high.
	Dec. 2	England	...	N. to S.	...	fireball.
1740.*	Feb. 23	Toulon	...	...	...	aërolitic (according to Baumhauer's Catalogue). Toulon. A fireball, which seemed to fall with detonation into the sea. Buchner says it rose by degrees and then descended again, then bounded back, and exploded at a great height.
?	?	Hungary	...	...	...	ditto (according to Boguslawski). Hungary. This is not correct; it is a mistake for 1717, according to Kesselmeyer; but more probably for 1770.
*	Winter	Greenland	large stone	...	...	Stone-fall (Winter of 1740 and 1741).
1741.*	Dec. 11	Sussex; Isle of Wight	> moon	W. to E.	...	conical; train of smoke; detonating fireball.
1742.*	Nov. 24	New Haven, Mass., U. S.	...	S.W to N.E.	...	fireball, with detonation.
	Dec. 16	London	...	...	...	fireball.
1743.	Oct. 4	London	...	...	several min.	ditto; like a rocket; streak several minutes.
1744.	May 7	Oxford	...	...	...	ditto;
	27	London	...	N.W. to S.E.	slow	low down.
1745.	Jan. 13	Arnheim	...	...	...	fireball.
	Oct. 13	Boulogne	...	...	...	ditto.
1746.	Mar. 8	Essex	...	...	...	ditto (or May 8?).
1749.	Nov. 4	Atlantic Ocean	...	...	...	fireball (Lat. 42° N., and Long. 9° W.?). Probably an electric fireball; shattered a ship's mast, leaving a strong sulphurous smell.
1750.?	Feb. 9	Silesia	...	...	...	ditto; aërolitic (according to Baumhauer's Cat.) Silesia; a fireball, said to have fallen down in fragments.
	Apr. 12	Hamburg	...	...	...	fireball.
	June 7	Norwich	...	...	...	ditto.
	July 16	Italy	...	...	...	ditto.
	22	Peterborough	...	N.W to S.E.	slow	fine bolide; tailed.
*	Oct. 12	Niort, Normandy	20 lbs.	noon(sic)	...	Stone-fall; a large one (or 11th October).
1751.*	May 26	Agram, Croatia	71+16 lbs.	N. to E.	6½ P.M.	Iron-fall; meteor and great explosion. The vapoury cloud left by the explosion visible for an hour before entirely dissipated. After the detonation took place, two masses of iron fell in the shape of chains welded together. Haidinger has lately published a full account of this in one of the Vienna Journals.
1752.	June 19	Nismes	...	...	...	fireball.
	Sept. 4	Zurich	...	...	...	ditto, like a rocket.
1753.*	July 3	Tabor, Bohemia	13 lbs.+	...	8 P.M.	Stone-fall; several; sp. gr. 3.65.
*	Sept. 7	Liponas, France	31 lbs.	...	2 P.M.	Stone-fall; two fell; sp. gr. 3·66.
	?	Lapland	...	...	...	fireball.
1754.	Feb. 26	Dublin	large	E. to W.	2"	bright as moon; nearly down; no streak or tail.
	Aug. 15	Holland	...	...	...	fireball?; 15 miles high?.
1755.*	July	Terra Nuova	7 lbs.?	...	...	Stone-fall; 7 oz.? In Calabria.
	Nov. 27	Sweden	...	...	...	fireball.
1756.	Jan. 2	Perth	...	...	...	a fine meteor.
	21	England	...	...	...	fireball.
	25	Milverton, Somerset	...	...	...	ditto (or 26th January?).
	Feb. 28	Cologne	...	...	...	ditto.
	Mar. 3	Berne; France	large	...	...	also seen at Veray, Aigle, and Bâsle.
	Apr. 29	Nevington	...	...	...	fireball.
1757.	Feb. 18	Rouen	...	...	...	ditto.
1758.	No. 26	Edinburgh; Dublin	= moon	S. to N.	...	dazzling; light as day; seen all over Great Britian. November 26 (or 25?). Seen from Cambridge to Ross-shire; velocity=30 miles in a second; height over Cambridge 95 miles; over Inverness 30 miles: seemed to descend obliquely towards the earth; and then rose again with renewed splendour.
	Dec. 22	Colchester	...	...	...	fireball.
1759.	Apr. 4	Bombay	...	...	...	splendid bolide.
	June 15	Bazas	...	...	...	ditto; caused an incendiary fire? (June 13?).
	Oct. 20	Bath, Essex, &c.	= moon	N.W to S.E.	2"	= moon at Shefield; = Venus in Essex.
1760.*	May 4	Newfoundland, St. John's	large	N.E to S.W.	...	conical; exploded with noise. Possibly the next one.
*	10	New England	ditto	N.E to S.W	...	cast a shadow in bright sunshine; detonation.
1761.	Jan 26	Weiböe	...	...	...	fireball.
*	Apr.	Thessalonica	large	S.E. to N.W.	...	by daylight; burst with great noise. Macedonia.
	July 17	Italy	...	...	...	fireball.
	Oct 11	Burgundy	...	...	...	ditto; set fire to a barn?; electrical?.
	Nov. 3	Whitby	...	N.E. to S.W.	streak 15'	ditto; accompanied with tail and sparks.
*	13	Geneva	large	...	...	ditto; followed by a detonation. November 11. Boguslawski has Chamblans, Oise, France; aëroltic fall; possibly same as that to have been seen and heard at Geneva on the 13th.
	11	Chamblans, France	...	...	...	fireball. Boguslawski has Chamblans, Oise, France; aërolitic fall; possibly same as that said to have been seen and heard at Geneva on the 13th.
1762.	Apr. 30	Sweden	...	...	...	fireball.
1762.*	June 11	Sydenham	...	N. to S.	...	fireball; detonation followed.
	July 23	Brandenburg	...	...	...	ditto;? 87 miles high at first, then 17 miles. 24th July?.
*	Nov. 12	South of France	2/3 moon	S.W to N.E.	...	ditto; large streak left; great detonation after.
	Dec. 5	Bideford, Devon	= moon	...	...	ditto; large tail; dazzling; left a curling vapoury smoke.
	27	Sweden	...	...	...	fireball.
1763.	Jan. 13	Sweden	...	...	...	ditto.
	15	Reading	large	...	...	bright as the moon.
	Sept. 2	Sweden, &c	ditto	...	...	a vast globe of fire and fiery tail.
	Oct. 18	Bedfordshire	2/3 moon	to W.	26"	fireball (or 1764?).
1764.*	July 20	Philadelphia	> sun	S.E to N.W.	...	30" after bursting a loud report heard; brilliant.
	Nov. 19	Paris	...	...	...	fireball.
1765.	May 3	Rome	large	...	...	ditto; equal sunlight.
	Aug. 9	Greenwich	...	N.W to S.E	...	a large bolide.
*	Oct. 8	South of England	= moon	...	...	ditto; brilliant; detonation (October 11?).
	Nov. 11	Frankfort	...	...	...	a bright meteoric light, lasting some time.
1766.*	July 15	Albereto, Milan	...	...	5 P.M.	Stone-fall; a largestone;
	Oct. 26	England	...	...	...	fireball.
1768.*	Sept. 13	Lucé, Sarthe, France	7½ lbs.	...	¼5 P.M.	Stone-fall; several; sp. gr. 3·58.
*	Nov. 20	Mauerkirchen, Bavaria	38 lbs.+	...	4 P.M.	Stone-fall; two fell, one of 38 lbs.; sp. gr. 3·45.
1769.	Jan. 27	Coventry	...	...	...	a ball of fire seen by daylight.
*	June 3	?	...	...	...	fireball and detonation.
1770.*	Oct. 25	Rasgrad	44 lbs.+4½ lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall (the stones sent to Constantinople). October 25, or at Hasagrad in Turkish Roumelia, A.D. 1740, or 1717 according to some, through incorrectly.
1771.*	July 17	France and England	> moon	...	...	fireball; 54 miles high; 24 miles a second; detonated.
	Nov. 9	Vöringen	...	...	...	fireball.
?	?	Ireland	...	...	...	stones said to have fallen. A stone like a grey siliceous pebble. Annales de Chimie, vol. lxxxv. p. 278, 1813. Possibly same as 1779 at Pettiswood.
1772.*	Feb. 10	Berwickshire	1/3 moon	N.W to S.E.	30° in 11"	fireball; slow; detonation in 5'; conical; tailed. February 10. Tweedmouth, &c. Vertical when first seen; 66 miles distant when noise heard.
	July?	United States?	...	...	...	ditto.
1773.	July 29	Crespi	...	...	...	ditto.
	Aug. 3	England	...	...	...	ditto.
	8	Northallerton	...	...	...	ditto.
1773.*	Nov. 17	Sigena, Arragon	9 lbs.	...	noon	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·63. Day-time.
1775.	May 8	Waltham Abbey	...	...	slow	a large meteor.
*	Sept. 19	Rödach, Coburg	6½ lbs.	...	10 A.M.	Stone-fall; Germany.
*	?	Obruteza, Russia	...	...	...	ditto, in Volhynia.
1776.	May 12	Mexico	...	...	...	fireball.
	July 11	Oxford	...	...	...	ditto.
?	Aug. 15	Novellara	large	...	...	ditto; aërolitic? (1766?).
1777.*	Jan. or Feb.	Fabriano, Ancona	...	...	...	Stone-fall; Italy (1776?).
*	Sept. 11	Berne	...	...	...	meteoric light and detonation.
1778.*	Aug. 26	Sondrio, near Como	...	...	...	fireball; detonated; moved by bounds and jerks, exploding every time.
1779.	Mar. 8	Département de l'Ain	...	...	...	ditto.
	Aug. 5	Pekin	...	...	...	ditto.
	Oct. 31	Philadelphia	...	...	...	ditto; 60 miles high when first seen.
*	?	Pettiswood, Ireland	5 ozs.	...	...	Stone-fall; in Westmeath. 1771?. Gent. Mag., Sept. 1796.
1780.*	Apr. 1	Beeston, Notingham	...	...	9 P.M.	ditto; April 11?; iron-fall?.
	Nov. 2	New Spain	...	...	...	fireball.
?	?	Lahore, India	...	...	...	Iron-fall; 1620?.
1781.	Apr. 12	Berne	large	...	...	meteor.
1782.*	July	Turin	...	...	...	Stone-fall; one fell.
1783.?	?	France	...	...	...	Stone-fall. A stone fell, making an oblique hole in the ground. Annales de Chimie. vol. lxxxv. p. 272.
	Aug. 13	Palatinate?	...	E.S.E to W.N.W	...	fireball (7th August, O.S.?).
*	18	France, England, Scotland	> moon	N. to S.	75° in 20"	streak visible for 60";detonation over Lincoln. 1783. October 18, 9 ¼ P.M. A very celebrated and remarkable meteor. First seen in the Shetland Isles; like the planet Mars; 1/3 moon, fromMullingar to York; equal 2 full moons over Kent; appeared to burst into two straight over Lincolnshire, with a report 8' or 9' heard at Windsor afterwards; visible 20" at once for an arc of 75°; 60 miles high; 20 miles in a second; tail 10 > than body; turned a little to E. after partially bursting; left a streak and sparks; tail not much seen at first, perhaps foreshortened. In Ireland, seen moving parallel to horizon 10° or 12° high. Seen over Burgundy in France; altogether for a distance of 1200 miles. At Greenwich as a double bolide, very brilliant. Heard to explode also over York some minutes after.
	Oct. 4	London, &c.	1/4 moon	N.W to S.E.	...	v.=12 miles per sec.; 50 miles high; 200 yds. diam.; Oct 14?
1784.	July 30	Prague	1/8 moon	E.S.E to W.N.W	...	fireball (24th July, Old Style?).
	Sept. 4	Prague	...	...	...	ditto.
	11	North Italy	...	...	...	ditto; 45 miles high when first seen.
1785.?	Jan. 10	Valence	...	...	...	ditto; aërolitic?.
*	Feb. 19	Eichstadt, Bichstadt, Bavaria	...	...	noon	Stone-fall; one 6 inches diam.: sp. gr. 3·62.
	June 1	Florence	...	...	...	fireball.
	Aug. 13	Frankfort-on-Maine	...	...	...	aërolitic (according to Boguslawski's Catalogue). August 13. Frankfort. A simultaneous conflagration of two houses, supposed to have been caused by an aërolitic or meteorite fall. Doubtful!
1786.	Apr. 10	Ireland	...	...	...	fireball.
	June 29	Beren	...	...	...	ditto.
	Sept. 2	South of England	...	...	40'	a bright ball of fire and light lasting 40'. During a hurricane of wind.
1787.	11	Edinburgh	= sun	...	...	fireball; or September 1. Edinburgh; first moved horizontally, then dropped a little, then rose again, bursting behind a cloud. Pringle imagines this bounding is caused by the elasticity of the atmosphere.
*	Oct. 1	Charkow, Ukraine	...	...	3 P.M.	Stone-fall; many fell; sp. gr. 3·50.
1788.	17	Connecticut	...	...	...	fireball.
1790.*	July 24	Barbotan, Landes, Bordeaux	20+10 lbs.	S. to N.	9 P.M.	Stone-fall; many fell; sp. gr. 3·62. Rochefort.
1791.*	May 17	Tuscany	...	...	5 A.M.	ditto.
	Oct. 20	Menabilly, Cornwall	...	...	...	hailstones fell; not meteoricic stones, as in Chladni's Catalogue.
1791.	Nov. 11	Göttingen	...	...	...	fireball. Also at Lilienthal. November 11. Göttingen; had a long curved spindle-shaped tail. 12th November?.
1792.	Apr. 18	Lima	...	...	...	ditto.
	July 23	Leipzig	...	...	...	ditto.
	Aug. 28	Peru	...	...	...	ditto; meteoric dust to have fallen.
	Sept.	Mayence	...	...	...	ditto.
1793.	Jan. 13	England	...	...	...	ditto.
	Sept. 10	Northumberland	...	...	5'	ditto; oval; variable; at first only like Sirius.
1794.	Mar. 28	England	...	...	...	fireball.
*	June 16	Siena, Italy	5½ lbs.+	N. to S.	7 P.M.	Stone-fall; 19 picked up; sp. gr. 3·40.
1795.*	Apr. 13	Ceylon, Indies	...	...	5 P.M.	ditto.
*	Dec. 13	Wold Cottage, Yorkshire	56 lbs.	...	3 P.M.	ditto; sp. gr. 3·70.
1796.*	Jan. 4	Bielaja, Zerkwa, Russia	...	...	...	Stone-fall; several.
*	Feb. 19	Friexo, Portugal	10 lbs.	...	...	Stone-fall; near Evora, river Friexo.
	Mar. 8	N. Germany, &c.	large	N.W. to S.E.	...	fireball; irregular in form; as large as the moon; burst. March 8. Dresden, Berlin, &c.; accompanied with detonation a few minutes after bursting; aërolitic, according to Baumhauer's Catalogue; a dark bituminous substance fell according to others.
1797.	July 13	Göttingen	...	...	...	fireball.
1798.	Mar. 8	Villefranche	...	E. to W.	...	bolide; not less than 7 miles high. Possibly identical with the fall of stones on the 12th at Salés.
*	12	Salés, France	20 lbs.	...	6 P.M.	Stone-fall; sp. gr. 3·45.
	July 28	England	...	...	...	fireball.
?	Sept. 6	Berne	...	...	...	a loud meteoric explosion overhead.
	22	Kent	...	...	...	fireball.
	Oct. 9	Göttingen, &c.	...	...	streak 15"	ditto; had a serpentine tail.
	Nov. 20	England	...	...	...	fireball.
*	Dec. 13	Benaes, India	...	...	8 P.M.	Stone-fall.
	19	Bengal	...	...	...	fireball; same as last?.
1799.*	Apr. 5	Baton, Rouge, Miss., U.S.	large	...	...	ditto, followed by a great detonation; aërolitic?. Stones said to have fallen.
	Sept. 15	England	ditto	N.W. to S.E.	...	brilliant; large blazing tail.
1799.	Nov. 2	Pocklington	...	...	...	fireball.
	7	Mexico	...	...	...	ditto.

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