List of Great Comets
Great Comets of the past two millennia include the following:
- Caesar's Comet – 44 BC
- Halley's Comet – 1066
- Great Comet of 1106
- Great Comet of 1264
- Great Comet of 1402
- Great Comet of 1556
- Great Comet of 1577
- Great Comet of 1680
- Great Comet of 1744
- Great Comet of 1811
- Great Comet of 1843
- Donati's Comet – 1858
- Great Comet of 1861
- Great Comet of 1882
- Great Daylight Comet of 1910
- Halley's Comet – 1910
- Comet Skjellerup–Maristany – 1927
- Comet Arend–Roland – 1957
- Comet Seki-Lines – 1962
- Comet Ikeya–Seki – 1965
- Comet Bennett – 1970
- Comet West – 1976
- Comet Hyakutake – 1996
- Comet Hale–Bopp – 1997
- Comet McNaught – 2007
- Comet Lovejoy – 2011
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