During genealogy study I read:
1833 year of the falling stars
I look it up ...13 Nov 1833:
“From two o'clock until broad daylight, the sky being perfectly serene and cloudless, an incessant play of dazzlingly brilliant luminosities was kept up in the whole heavens."
It was so bright that a newspaper could be read on the street.
One writer says, "For nearly four hours the sky was literally ablaze."
Mystical Wisp mixed-media by Lura Astor