June 26 Historical Events

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

Found 72 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 4
  Augustus adopts Tiberius.
• 221
  Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
• 363
  Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
• 687
  Pope Benedict II chosen.
• 699
  En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
• 1243
  Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
• 1295
  Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
• 1407
  Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
• 1409
  Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
• 1460
  Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
• 1483
  Richard III becomes King of England.
• 1522
  Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
• 1541
  Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
• 1579
  Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
• 1718
  Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

• 1723
  After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• 1740
  A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
• 1794
  French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
• 1830
  William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
• 1843
  Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British “in perpetuity”.
• 1848
  End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1857
  The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
• 1870
  The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1886
  Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• 1889
  Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
• 1906
  The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
• 1907
  The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery takes place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
• 1909
  The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 1917
  The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
• 1918
  World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.