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In the past people celebrated important astronomical events and some of those events are still celebrated in some cultures and traditions. For example: March/September equinox, New Moon, Winter/Summer solstice.

I am looking for a list of astronomical events that people celebrated in the past. Do you know any other important astronomical events that were celebrated in the past?

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The summer and winter solstices, and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes were venerated for a very long time throughout Western Europe.

Solar and Lunar eclipses where so significant, from a religious perspective, that many efforts were made to predict their occurrences well into the modern era.

Cometary close-approaches also were seen as omens and portents (see also the star of Christmas in Judeo-Christian circles), as were detectable nova and super-nova.

There are probably more, but I can't think of what they might be right now. Humans have been obsessed with the heavens since humans could human, so...

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    $\begingroup$ Thanks, what do you mean by "humans could human"? Lol $\endgroup$
    – SpiralDev
    Commented Dec 13, 2021 at 5:31
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    $\begingroup$ It's a play on words in English, meant to indicate that we have been doing a thing for as long as we have been around $\endgroup$
    – GrasshopperTaji
    Commented Dec 13, 2021 at 14:42

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