July 26 Historical Events

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

Found 62 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 657
  First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
• 811
  Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
• 920
  Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
• 1309
  Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
• 1469
  Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
• 1509
  The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
• 1581
  Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
• 1745
  The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
• 1758
  French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
• 1775
  The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
• 1788
  New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
• 1803
  The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
• 1822
  José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
• 1822
  First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
• 1847
  Liberia declares its independence.

• 1861
  American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
• 1863
  American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
• 1882
  Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• 1882
  The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
• 1887
  Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• 1890
  In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman’s resignation.
• 1891
  France annexes Tahiti.
• 1897
  Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• 1908
  United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
• 1914
  Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
• 1936
  The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
• 1936
  King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the thrоne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
• 1937
  End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
• 1941
  World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
• 1944
  World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.