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

Found 32 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 747 BC

  Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar Era.
• 364

  Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 1233

  Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
• 1266

  Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
• 1616

  Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
• 1794

  The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
• 1815

  Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
• 1876

  Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
• 1909

  Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• 1914

  HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 1916

  Tokelau annexed by the United Kingdom.
• 1917

  The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 1919

  President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 1929

  President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• 1935

  Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1935

  Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
• 1936

  In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
• 1946

  Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
• 1952

  Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
• 1960

  A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
• 1966

  Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
• 1966

  Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
• 1971

  U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• 1972

  The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
• 1980

  Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• 1987

  Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• 1991

  Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
• 1992

  Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
• 1993

  World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
• 1995

  The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

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