Another one of those once in a lifetime confluence events (i.e. 10/10/10) with little to no significance other than that it won't come along again for a very long time, if ever, but then again neither will 12/20/10.
From The Montreal Gazette...
This year's winter solstice will coincide with a full lunar eclipse (starting tomorrow around 1:15am) in a union that hasn't been seen in 456 years. The last time the two celestial events happened at the same time was in AD 1554, according to NASA.
An otherwise seemingly unexceptionable year in recorded history, the darkened moon happened during a bleak year for Tudor England. Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for treason that year, while Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Scientifically, however, it's just a coincidence of natural cycles.
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