title: Lists of solar eclipses
text: # Lists of solar eclipses
  
  A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially.
  
  ## On Earth, by the Moon
  
  ### By location
  
  * List of solar eclipses visible from Australia
  * List of solar eclipses visible from China
  * List of solar eclipses visible from the Philippines
  * List of solar eclipses visible from Russia
  * List of solar eclipses visible from Ukraine
  * List of solar eclipses visible from the United Kingdom
  * List of solar eclipses visible from the United States
  
  ### By time period of history
  
  * List of solar eclipses in antiquity (20th century BCE to 4th century CE/AD)
  * List of solar eclipses in the Middle Ages (5th to 15th century)
  * Modern history
     * List of solar eclipses in the 16th century
     * List of solar eclipses in the 17th century
     * List of solar eclipses in the 18th century
     * List of solar eclipses in the 19th century
     * List of solar eclipses in the 20th century
     * List of solar eclipses in the 21st century
  * Solar eclipses after the modern era (22nd to 30th century)
  
  ## Other
  
  * List of films featuring eclipses
  * Solar eclipses in fiction
  