The first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_2004" id="mwAUs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Transit of Venus, 2004">Venus Transit</a> in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882_transit_of_Venus" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1882 transit of Venus">1882</a>.