Karmic Confluence:
Historic Events Coinciding with the Saturn/Rahu Conjunction
Date Exact     Nakshatra Rahu/Saturn in       Corresponding Events
               (Exact conj.) the Same Sign
                                              1. Peninsular War (Napoleonic
                                                 occupation of Spain)1
                                              2. U.S. bans transatlantic slave trade
                                                 (Jan 1, 1808)
                            June – October
Aug 17, 1808   Vishakha                       3. Battle of Bailén – First French defeat
                            1808
                                                 (Jul 21)
                                              4. Multiple Volcanic Eruptions lead to
                                                 global cooling making the 1810’s the
                                                 coldest decade in the past 500 years.
                                              1. Colombian Independence
               Uttara       April 1819 –      2. Rann of Kutch Earthquake, India
Mar 10, 1820
               Bhadrapada   November 1820     3. Spanish Revolution
                                              4. Portugal Revolution
                                              1. Belgian Revolution
                                              2. November Uprising (Poland)
                                              3. Zavaritski Volcanic Eruption (led
                            August 1830 –     to global temperatures going down 1
May 25, 1831   Magha
                            July 1831         degree C. leading to crop failures and
                                              worldwide famines.)
                                              4. Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
                                              1. Mount St. Helens Eruption
                                              2. Guadalupe Earthquake
                                              3. The treaty of Nanjing- (Ends the
               Purva        June 1842 – Feb
Nov 27, 1842                                  First Opium War and begins China’s
               Ashadha      1843
                                              “Century of Humiliation”, and a period
                                              of greater engagement with the West.)
                                              1. Crimean War,
                                              2. Commodore Perry’s Expedition to
                                              Japan (Shattered Japan’s centuries-old
                                              feudal system, setting it on the path to
                            May 1853 –        becoming a global power.)
Apr 26, 1854   Krittika
                            October 1854      3. Taiping Rebellion (ongoing,
                                              ultimately killing 20 M)
                                                1. Lincoln's Assassination
                                                2. American Civil War Ends
                             October 1864 –     3. Calcutta Cyclone (70,000 dead)
Jul 27, 1865   Chitra
                             August 1865        4. Second Schleswig War
                                                5. Paraguayan War.
                                                1. North China Famine
                             July 1876 –        2. Russian-Turkish War
Feb 28, 1877   Shatabhisha
                             January 1878       3. Great Railroad Strike (Paralyzes
                                                USA)
                                                1. Yellow River Flood (China)
                                                2. Bandai Volcano Eruption
                             June 1887 –
May 24, 1888   Pushya                           3. Great Famine (India)
                             December 1888
                                                4. North China Famine,
                                                5. Global Drought and Famine
                                                1. Second Boer War
                                                2. Thousand Days’ War (Colombia)
                             October 1899 –     3. Boxer Rebellion (China)
Nov 1, 1899    Jyeshtha
                             November 1899      4. Philippine American War
                                                escalation.
                                                5. Marconi’s first radio signal
                                                1. Xinhai Revolution (Ended 2000
                                                years of imperial rule in China)
                                                2. Standard Oil Anti-Trust Decision
                             September 1910 –
May 2, 1911    Bharani                          3. Portugal Monarchy Overthrown
                             February 1912
                                                4. Mexican Revolution
                                                5. Yangtze River Flood Kills 100,000
                                                6. Superconductivity discovered
                                                1. Hitler became the Fuhrer of Nazi
                                                Party
               Uttara        August 1921 –
Jul 15, 1922                                    2. USSR Formation
               Phalguni      January 1923
                                                3. Russian Famine (5 million died)
                                                4. Ottoman Empire Abolished
                                                1. Hitler consolidates total power
                             November 1933 –    2. India Earthquake 12,000 dead
Feb 12, 1934   Dhanishtha
                             March 1934         3. Australian Civil War begins
                                                4. Dust Bowl (intense dust storms USA)
                                                1. Peak of Death Camp atrocities by
                                                2. Nazis
                             October 1944 –
May 27, 1945   Ardra                            3. First Nuclear Bombs (Japan)
                             April 1946
                                                4. End of WWII.
                                                1. Civil Rights Movement (Rosa Parks)
                             November 1955 –    2. Suez Crisis
Oct 8, 1956    Anuradha
                             February 1957      3. Hungarian Revolution
                                                4. Sudanese independence
                                              1. Martin Luther King and Bobby
                                              Kennedy Assassinations
                                              2. Tet Offensive in Vietnam
                            January 1968 –    3. Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Apr 30, 1968   Revati
                            March 1969        4. Iran Earthquake (12,000 deaths)
                                              5. Worldwide student protests.
                                              1. Iranian Revolution
                                              2. Afghan uprisings lead to Soviet
                                              Invasion of Afghanistan
                                              3. Idi Amin Overthrown in Uganda
                                              4. Sandinista Revolution (Nicaragua)
               Purva        December 1978 –
Jul 7, 1979                                   5. Winter of Discontent in Britain
               Phalguni     November 1979
                                              (widespread strikes by workers).
                                              6. Oil prices crashed, global energy
                                              crisis
                                              7. Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown
                                              8. Ixtoc Oil Spill
                                              1. Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm),
               Uttara       December 1990 –   2. Salvadoran Civil War
Jan 20, 1991
               Ashadha      April 1991        3. Iraq sets fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields.
                                              4. Soviet Union Dissolves
                                              1. Iraq War begins
                                              2. Palestine/Israeli War intensifies
                                              3. Gujarat Riots (India)
                            February 2002 –   4. Europe Floods (record breaking)
Jun 4, 2002    Mrigashira
                            March 2003        5. Typhoon Rusa (South Korea)
                                              6. Venezuelan General Strike
                                              7. Bali Bombings
                                              8. Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
                                              1. ISIS Caliphate declared
                                              2. Middle East conflicts
                                              3. Global instability
                                              4. Syrian War intensified
                                              5. Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines, killed
                                              6000 people)
                            January 2013 –
Sep 16, 2013   Swati                          6. Uttarakhand floods and Landslides
                            July 2014
                                              (India – killed 5000 people)
                                              7. Solomon Islands Earthquake 8.0
                                              8. Nelson Mandela died marking an
                                              end of an era in Civil Rights
                                              9. Russia Annexes Crimea and
                                              disruption of energy supplies to Europe.