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The following events took place on May 26. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 61 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 47 BC

  Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.
• 17

  Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
• 451

  Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
• 946

  King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine’s Mass Day.
• 1135

  Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae, “Emperor of all of Spain”.
• 1293

  An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
• 1328

  William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
• 1538

  Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
• 1573

  The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
• 1637

  Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
• 1644

  Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
• 1647

  Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
• 1736

  The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
• 1770

  The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
• 1783

  A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
• 1805

  Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
• 1821

  Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
• 1822

  One hundred sixteen people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway’s history.
• 1828

  Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
• 1830

  The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
• 1857

  Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
• 1864

  Montana is organized as a United States territory.
• 1865

  American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
• 1868

  Michael Barrett was the last person to be publicly executed in Great Britain
• 1869

  Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• 1879

  Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• 1896

  Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• 1896

  Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• 1897

  Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
• 1900

  Thousand Days’ War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.

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