<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet" id="mwvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Halley's Comet">Halley's Comet</a> is sighted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Palitzsch" id="mwvw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Johann Georg Palitzsch">Johann Georg Palitzsch</a>, confirming <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Halley" id="mwwA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edmund Halley">Edmund Halley</a>'s prediction of its passage.  This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.<sup about="#mwt105" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_25#cite_note-19" id="mwwQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwwg">[19]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"><cite about="#mwt102" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCO4"><a class="external text" href="http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/history/notes-c.html" id="mwCO8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Messier's "Notes on my comets"<span class="cs1-kern-right" id="mwCPA"></span>"</a>. <q id="mwCPE">It was discovered, [...] at Aprohlis, near Dresden, by a farmer named Palitzsch, on the 25th of December 1758[...]</q></cite><span about="#mwt102" class="Z3988" id="mwCPI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Messier%27s+%22Notes+on+my+comets%22&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.messier.seds.org%2Fxtra%2Fhistory%2Fnotes-c.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+25"></span></span>