Today Is...The Solar Eclipse From Which All Are Calculated

Ever since we have had a Moon, we have had Solar Eclipses although it is doubtful the Dinosaurs cared too much, they just carried on walking around and eating each other but us first humans are a more inquisitive bunch and we looked at it at wondered: 'Whats that all about then?' 
The oldest recorded eclipse was in 3340 BC, a drawing of overlapping concentric circles drawn onto a rock in Ireland which was probably a caveman trying to explain to his pal what had happened and in 1200 BC China was scribes which stated that the Sun had been eaten.
Obviously back in those days the idea of the celestial dance which is an Eclipses was unknown but the one which happened today in 585BC in present Day Turkey resulted in two warring armies stop hacking at each other, looked up at the sky as it turned into night and decided whatever God was in charge of the Sun wasn't happy that they were scrapping and shook hands and made peace instead.
This Solar Eclipse became the one from which all later Eclipses were accurately determined in advance of it's occurrence including the one in 100ad that Chinese Astronomer Zhang Heng tried to describe to his King, saying that that the Earth, Planets and Sun must all be spherical and tried to explain how the Moon reflects the light of the Sun and sometimes the Moon gets between the Sun and earth eclipses the light.
Even after repeating light here, big thing in way there, no light here, he gave up and decided that for them it was so far out of the box that he would have to invent binoculars for them to actually see the box.
It was not until 1605 that astronomer Johannes Kepler gave a scientific description of a total solar eclipse and received an asteroid and both a lunar and a Martian crater named after him for his efforts.