SomeFacts | December 26

On this day - December 26

795 — Election of Pope Leo III.

887 — Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of ...

1481 — Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised ...

1704 — Second Battle of Anandpur: In the Second Battle of Anandpur, ...

1709 — The opera Agrippina by George Frideric Handel premiered in ...

1723 — Bach led the first performance of Darzu ist erschienen der ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the ...

1790 — Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil ...

1793 — Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.

1799 — Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress ...

1805 — Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.

1806 — Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French ...

1811 — A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills 72 people, ...

1825 — Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar ...

1843 — The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them ...

1860 — First Rules derby is held between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam ...

1861 — American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic ...

1862 — Dakota War of 1862: The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history ...

1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins as ...

1871 — Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts.

1898 — Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

1919 — Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York ...

1926 — World premiere of Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola.

1941 — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses a joint ...

1941 — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing ...

1943 — World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off ...

1944 — World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the ...

1948 — The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.

1948 — Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused ...

1963 — The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and ...

1966 — The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair ...

1968 — Pan Am Flight 799 crashes during takeoff from Elmendorf Air ...

1968 — The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose ...

1972 — Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American ...

1975 — Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, ...

1978 — The inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally begins.

1980 — Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained ...

1989 — United Express Flight 2415 crashes on approach to the ...

1991 — The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally ...

1993 — Kuban Airlines Flight 5719 crashes during a go-around at ...

1994 — Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France ...

1998 — Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British ...

1999 — The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and ...

2003 — The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a ...

2004 — Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is ...

2004 — The 9.1–9.3 Mw Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra ...

2006 — Two earthquakes in Hengchun, Taiwan measuring 7.0 and 6.9 on ...

2012 — China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, ...

2013 — An Irkut-Avia Antonov An-12 crashes on approach to Irkutsk ...

2015 — A violent EF-4 tornado hits Garland, Texas, killing nine and ...

2021 — Three people are killed when a 14-year-old opens fire on ...

2025 — Israel recognises Somaliland as an independent state, becoming ...