SomeFacts | August 26

On this day - August 26

683 — The Battle of al-Harrah concludes, with Yazid I's army ...

1071 — The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of ...

1278 — Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar ...

1303 — Chittorgarh falls to the Delhi Sultanate.

1346 — Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of Crécy, an English ...

1444 — Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of ...

1542 — A year and a half after leaving Guayaquil on the Pacific ...

1642 — Dutch–Portuguese War: Second Battle of San Salvador: The Dutch ...

1648 — The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle ...

1748 — The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the ...

1767 — Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire ...

1768 — Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS ...

1778 — The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in ...

1789 — The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is ...

1791 — John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.

1810 — The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of ...

1813 — War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place ...

1814 — Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel ...

1833 — The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage ...

1849 — President Faustin Soulouque of the First Republic of Haiti has ...

1863 — The Swedish-language liberal newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad ...

1883 — The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, ...

1914 — World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II ...

1914 — World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to ...

1920 — The 19th amendment to United States Constitution, giving women ...

1922 — Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has ...

1936 — Spanish Civil War: Santander falls to the Nationalists and the ...

1940 — World War II: Chad becomes the first French colony to join the ...

1942 — The Holocaust in Ukraine: At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police ...

1944 — World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.

1966 — The South African Border War starts with the battle at ...

1969 — Aeroflot Flight 1770 crashes while landing at Vnukovo ...

1970 — The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote ...

1972 — The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.

1977 — The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National ...

1978 — Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.

1980 — After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel ...

1993 — Sakha Avia Flight 301 crashes on approach to Aldan Airport, ...

1997 — Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people ...

1998 — The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 ...

1999 — Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the ...

2003 — A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes ...

2009 — Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in ...

2011 — The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite ...

2014 — The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation ...

2015 — Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled ...

2018 — Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass ...

2021 — During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid ...

2023 — Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, ...