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

Found 60 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1500

  Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
• 1531

  Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake—thousands die.
• 1564

  The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
• 1564

  The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
• 1565

  Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
• 1589

  Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1699

  Treaty of Karlowitz is signed.
• 1700

  The magnitude 9 Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• 1736

  Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• 1788

  The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
• 1808

  Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
• 1837

  Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
• 1838

  Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
• 1841

  The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
• 1855

  Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
• 1856

  First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
• 1861

  American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
• 1863

  American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
• 1870

  American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
• 1885

  Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• 1905

  The world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3106.75 carat, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
• 1907

  The Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
• 1911

  Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
• 1911

  Richard Strauss’ opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1915

  The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
• 1918

  Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers’ Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
• 1920

  Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• 1924

  Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
• 1930

  The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (“Complete Independence”) which occurred 17 years later.

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