1066 AD

Around the same time as the Chinese were making star maps, a portion of the famous Bayeaux tapestry, depicts a highly stylized Halley's comet at the top which appears to be pulling an aerial advertising sign.

The men at the left are Englishmen in the spring of 1066 and the legend above them actually reads:  

"These men wonder at the star."

 At right, King Harold II of England is being told of the bad omen, and he imagines the invasion ships at his feet that foreshadow his defeat.