On this day: 26 May
Events, births and deaths on 26 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Liverpool parade incident
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Hedy Epstein
100 years ago1926
- Births · Miles Davis
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 946 · Deaths · Edmund I
- 1055 · Deaths · Adalbert, Margrave of Austria
- 1035 · Deaths · Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona
Events · 28
- 451(Julian date)Battle of Avarayr — 451 battle
- 1573(Julian date)Battle of Haarlemmermeer — 1573 naval battle on Harlem Lake between the Spanish and Dutch fleets
- 1644Battle of Montijo — 1644 battle between Portugal and Spain
- 1864Montana Territory — organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1864 to 1889
- 1879Treaty of Gandamak — Treaty that officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- 1896Dow Jones Industrial Average — stock market index
- 1900Battle of Palonegro — 1900 battle of the Thousand Days War
- 1918Democratic Republic of Georgia — first modern establishment of Georgia as an independent Country (1918-1921)
- 1933Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army — military unit
- 1937Battle of the Overpass — 1937 violence against union organizers in Dearborn, Michigan, USA
- 1940Dunkirk evacuation — evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
- 1940Battle of Dunkirk — 1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
- 1942Battle of Gazala — battle of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya
- 1968H-dagurinn — day Iceland changed from left hand to right hand traffic
- 1969Andean Community — Integration organization of the Andean region of South America, formed by Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
- 1972Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty — arms control treaty between the US and the USSR
- 19831983 Sea of Japan earthquake — 1983 earthquake and tsunami centered off the coast of Akita Prefecture, Japan
- 1991Lauda Air Flight 004 — Crash of an Austrian Boeing 767 in Thailand in 1991
- 19981998 MIAT Mongolian Airlines crash — 1998 pasenger plane crash near Erdenet, Orkhon, Mongolia
- 19991999 champions league final — 1999 football final between Manchester United and Bayern München
- 2002I-40 bridge disaster — Highway bridge collapse
- 2003UM Airlines Flight 4230 — 2003 aviation accident
- 20082008 South China floods — 2008 natural disaster in China
- 2015Seventeen — South Korean musical group; boy band
- 2020George Floyd protests — 2020–2022 protests following the police murder of George Floyd
- 2021May 2021 lunar eclipse — Total lunar eclipse
- 20212021 San Jose shooting — mass shooting at a rail yard in San Jose, California, United States, on May 26, 2021; the deadliest mass shooting in San Francisco Bay Area history
- 20252025 Liverpool parade incident — traffic collision
Births · 60
- 1478(Julian date)Clement VII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)
- 1566(Julian date)Mehmed III — 13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595–1603)
- 1602Philippe de Champaigne — French painter (1602–1674)
- 1623William Petty — English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1687)
- 1650(Julian date)John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough — English soldier and statesman (1650-1722)
- 1667Abraham de Moivre — French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
- 1700Nicolaus Zinzendorf — German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church (1700-1760)
- 1822Edmond de Goncourt — French writer and critic (1822–1896)
- 1867Mary of Teck — Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
- 1881Adolfo de la Huerta — President of Mexico (1881–1955)
- 1886Al Jolson — American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886–1950)
- 1894Paul Lukas — Hungarian-American actor (1891-1971)
- 1895Dorothea Lange — American photojournalist (1895-1965)
- 1904Necip Fazıl Kısakürek — Turkish novelist, playwright, and Islamist conspiracy theorist (1904–1983)
- 1907John Wayne — American actor (1907–1979)
- 1908Robert Morley — British actor (1908–1992)
- 1909Matt Busby — Scottish football player and manager (1909-1994)
- 1910Adolfo López Mateos — 55th President of Mexico
- 1912János Kádár — former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
- 1913Peter Cushing — British actor (1913–1994)
- 1913Pierre Daninos — French writer and humorist (1913–2005)
- 1920Peggy Lee — American singer (1920–2002)
- 1923James Arness — American actor (1923–2011)
- 1926Miles Davis — American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
- 1928Jack Kevorkian — American pathologist, euthanasia activist (1928-2011)
Deaths · 60
- 604(Julian date)Augustine of Canterbury — 6th-century missionary, archbishop, and saint
- 946Edmund I — King of England (r. 939–946)
- 1035(Julian date)Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona — count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona (1005-1035) (r.1018-1035)
- 1055Adalbert, Margrave of Austria — Margrave of Austria
- 1339(Julian date)Aldona of Lithuania — Queen consort of Poland (c.1309–1339)
- 1421Mehmed I — fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)
- 1512(Julian date)Bayezid II — the eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512)
- 1535(Julian date)Francesco Berni — Italian poet
- 1552(Julian date)Sebastian Münster — German cartographer, cosmographer, and scholar (1488–1552)
- 1648Vincent Voiture — French poet
- 1653Robert Filmer — English writer
- 1679Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria (1636-1679)
- 1685Charles II, Elector Palatine — Elector Palatine from 1680 to 1685
- 1702Zeb-un-Nisa — Mughal princess and poet
- 1703Samuel Pepys — English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)
- 1762Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten — German philosopher (b. 1714)
- 1799James Burnett, Lord Monboddo — Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher
- 1818Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza — Chilean politician (1785-1818)
- 1840Sidney Smith — British naval officer (1764-1840)
- 1877Kido Takayoshi — Japanese samurai of the Mito Domain and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1833-1877)
- 1883Abdelkader El Djezairi — Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)
- 1902Almon Brown Strowger — Union Army officer, inventor (1839–1902)
- 1908Mirza Ghulam Ahmad — Indian religious leader (1835–1908)
- 1914Jacob Riis — American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
- 1924Victor Herbert — American composer (1859–1924)
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