How the Full Moon briefly vanished, nearly a thousand years ago Scott Sutherland Wednesday, May 5th 2021, 6:00 am - On this day in weather history, an extremely rare 'dark' lunar eclipse occurred on the 5th of May, in the year 1110, but how? According to records over nine hundred years old, witnesses reported that the Full Moon briefly vanished from the sky during a total lunar eclipse. This image of the Super Blood Wolf Moon total lunar eclipse was shot on January 20, 2019, from Richmond, BC, before the Moon was completely enveloped in Earth's shadow. Credit: Tony Venezuela/UGC According to the Peterborough Chronicle, which catalogued noteable events throughout out England's history, in the year 1110: