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What happened on July 26
On July 26 history recorded 74 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 103 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 74events
- 160births
- 103deaths
- 16observances
Highlights
Highlights
1184Approximately 60 local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed in Erfurt, causing them to fall through the ground floor into a latrine cesspit below.
On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit below. They were attending a Hoftag conducted by King Henry VI when their combined
1551The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Castello of Gozo to the Ottoman Empire following a brief siege, leading to the mass enslavement and dispersal of the Gozitan population.
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, is a Catholic military order. It was founded in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century and had its headquarters there, in Jerusalem and A
1759French and Indian War: Troops led by French brigadier general François-Charles de Bourlamaque attempted to blow up Fort Carillon, near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, rather than defending it against approaching British forces.
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Indigenous allies, which were called "Indians" at the time. Historians generally consider it part of the global Seven Years' War
July 26
On this day
VII century
- 657
657First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
IX century
X century
XII century
XIV century
XVI century
- 1509
1509Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne as Emperor of Vijayanagara, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire. - 1529
1529Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru. - 1579
1579Francis Drake, the English explorer, discovers a "fair and good" bay on the coast of the Pacific Northwest (probably Oregon or Washington). - 1581
1581Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
XVIII century
- 1703
1703During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession. - 1745
1745The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England. - 1757
1757A French army under Marshal d'Estrées defeats a smaller British-German army under the duke of Cumberland in the battle of Hastenbeck. - 1758
1758French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. - 1775
1775The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General. - 1778
1778The Emigration of Christians from the Crimea in 1778 begins. - 1788
1788New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
XIX century
- 1803
1803The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom. - 1814
1814The Swedish–Norwegian War begins. - 1822
1822José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar. - 1822
1822First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis. - 1847
1847Liberia declares its independence from the United States. France and the United Kingdom are the first to recognize the new nation. - 1848
1848The University of Wisconsin–Madison is established by Nelson Dewey, first Governor of Wisconsin. - 1861
1861American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. - 1863
1863American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. - 1882
1882Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth. - 1882
1882The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa. - 1887
1887Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement. - 1890
1890In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation. - 1891
1891France annexes Tahiti. - 1892
1892Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. - 1897
1897Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India. - 1899
1899Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
XX century
- 1908
1908United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). - 1918
1918Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy. - 1936
1936Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction. - 1936
1936King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. - 1937
1937Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory. - 1941
1941World War II: Battle of Grand Harbour, British forces on Malta destroy an attack by the Italian Decima Flottiglia MAS. Fort St Elmo Bridge covering the harbour is demolished in the process. - 1941
1941World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments. - 1944
1944World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation. - 1945
1945The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. - 1945
1945World War II: The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. - 1945
1945World War II: HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war. - 1945
1945World War II: The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb. - 1946
1946Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport. - 1947
1947Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. - 1948
1948U.S. president Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States. - 1951
1951Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom. - 1952
1952King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad. - 1953
1953Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement - 1953
1953Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid. - 1953
1953Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War. - 1956
1956Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation. - 1957
1957Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated. - 1958
1958Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. - 1963
1963Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. - 1963
1963An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead. - 1963
1963The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan. - 1968
1968Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. - 1971
1971Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle. - 1974
1974Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule. - 1977
1977The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. - 1989
1989A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. - 1990
1990The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. - 1993
1993Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people on board are killed. - 1999
1999Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
XXI century
- 2005
2005Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. - 2005
2005Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people. - 2008
2008Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India. - 2009
2009The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities. - 2011
2011A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed. - 2016
2016The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed. - 2016
2016Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. - 2016
2016Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
Best known
Born on July 26
Best known
Died on July 26
811Nikephoros I
Byzantine emperor from 802 to 811
990Fujiwara no Kaneie
Japanese statesman, courtier and politician
1380Emperor Kōmyō
Japanese Northern Emperor from 1336 to 1348
1471Pope Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
1533Atahualpa
Last Inca Emperor (ruled 1532–1533)
1592Armand de Gontaut, Baron of Biron
French marshal and diplomat
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day: Andrew of Phú Yên
- Christian feast day: Anne and Joachim (Western Christianity)
- Christian feast day: Bartolomea Capitanio
- Christian feast day: Blessed Camilla Gentili
- Christian feast day: George Preca
- Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Pierina
- Christian feast day: Paraskevi of Rome (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Christian feast day: Titus Brandsma
- Christian feast day: Venera
- Christian feast day: July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Emancipation Day (Barbados)
- Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
- Esperanto Day
- Independence Day (Liberia), celebrates the independence of Liberia from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
Frequently asked questions
What happened on July 26?
74 documented historical events happened on July 26, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Approximately 60 local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed in Erfurt, causing them to fall through the ground floor into a latrine cesspit below. On the same day, in another year: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Castello of Gozo to the Ottoman Empire following a brief siege, leading to the mass enslavement and dispersal of the Gozitan population. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on July 26?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on July 26, including Stan and Jan Berenstain, Hoyt Wilhelm, Jerzy Einhorn. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on July 26?
103 people with a Wikipedia article died on July 26, including Nikephoros I, Fujiwara no Kaneie, Emperor Kōmyō. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on July 26?
16 observances are celebrated on July 26 around the world: Christian feast day: Andrew of Phú Yên, Christian feast day: Anne and Joachim (Western Christianity), Christian feast day: Bartolomea Capitanio, Christian feast day: Blessed Camilla Gentili, Christian feast day: George Preca, Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Pierina. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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