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Originally Posted by Nereid
Any solar eclipses, somewhere in the world, during at least part of a transit of Venus?
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None since 2000 BCE, and the next is not forecast until 5 April 15,232 (Dynamical Time!).
There was a near miss on 22 May 427 BCE, when a total solar eclipse ended nine hours before the beginning of a transit of Venus, and another on 4 June 1769, when a total solar eclipse started five hours after the transit of Venus ended.
(Information from Jean Meeus'
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III.)
Grant Hutchison