On this day: 26 October
Events, births and deaths on 26 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1916 · Births · François Mitterrand
- 1919 · Births · Mohammad Reza I of Iran
- 1932 · Deaths · Margaret Brown
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 20
- 1185(Julian date)Uprising of Asen and Peter — 1185 uprising against Byzantine rule in the eastern Balkans
- 1597Battle of Myeongnyang — 1597 fought during the Japanese invasions of Korea
- 1689(Julian date)Skopje fire of 1689 — 1689 burning of Skopje by invading Austrian forces
- 1795French Directory — five-member executive committee of Revolutionary France (1795-1799)
- 1813Battle of the Chateauguay — war of 1812 battle
- 1860Expedition of the Thousand — historical event in 1860, part of the Italian unification (Risorgimento)
- 1863The Football Association — governing body of association football in England
- 1881firefight at the O.K. Corral — 1881 shootout; 3 dead, 3 injured
- 1905Norway — country in Northern Europe
- 1909assassination of Itō Hirobumi — 1909 assassination of Japanese prime minister Ito Hirobumi by Korean nationalist An Jung-geun
- 1937Defense of Sihang Warehouse — engagement in the Battle of Shanghai (1937)
- 1955South Vietnam — former state in Southeast Asia
- 1967Coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi — 1967 coronation of the Shah and queen of Iran
- 1979assassination of Park Chung-hee — assassination of the president of South Korea in 1979
- 1989China Airlines Flight 204 — Aircraft accident
- 1994Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace — peace treaty
- 2002Moscow theater hostage crisis — seizure of a crowded Dubrovka Theater in Russia that happened in 2002
- 2012Windows 8 — personal computer operating system by Microsoft that was released in 2012
- 20152015 Hindu Kush earthquake — earthquake which occurred on 26 October 2015
- 2019Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — U.S. military operation in Barisha, Syria
Births · 60
- 1431(Julian date)Ercole I d'Este — Duke of Ferrara from 1471 to 1505
- 1491(Julian date)Zhengde Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1674Dimitrie Cantemir — Prince of Moldavia
- 1685Domenico Scarlatti — Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti
- 1757Karl Leonhard Reinhold — Austrian philosopher
- 1759Georges Danton — French revolutionary (1759–1794)
- 1797Giuditta Pasta — Italian opera singer (1798-1865)
- 1800Helmuth von Moltke the Elder — German Field Marshal (1800–1891)
- 1802Miguel I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1828 to 1834
- 1825Iwakura Tomomi — Japanese politician (1825-1883)
- 1849Ferdinand Georg Frobenius — German mathematician (1849–1917)
- 1865Benjamin Guggenheim — American businessman (1865–1912)
- 1869Washington Luís — President of Brazil from 1926 to 1930
- 1873Thorvald Stauning — Prime Minister of Denmark (1873–1942)
- 1874Martin Lowry — English chemist (1874–1936)
- 1880Andrei Bely — Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
- 1883
- 1893Miloš Crnjanski — expressionist modernist poet, author, and diplomat from Austria-Hungary
- 1900Karin Boye — Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)
- 1900Ibrahim Abboud — Sudanese politician and head of state (1900–1983)
- 1902Beryl Clutterbuck Markham — British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer (1902–1986)
- 1911Mahalia Jackson — American gospel singer (1911–1972)
- 1912Don Siegel — American film director (1912–1991)
- 1914Jackie Coogan — American actor (1914–1984)
- 1916François Mitterrand — 21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
Deaths · 60
- 664(Julian date)Cedd — Bishop of London; Saint
- 899(Julian date)Alfred the Great — king of Wessex (r. 872–901)
- 1440(Julian date)Gilles de Rais — leader in the French army, companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, convicted serial killer of children
- 1555(Julian date)Olympia Fulvia Morata — Italian classical scholar
- 1580(Julian date)Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain — queen consort of Spain (1549-1580)
- 1631Michael Maestlin — German astronomer and mathematician (1550–1631)
- 1751Philip Doddridge — English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter (1702-1751)
- 1764William Hogarth — English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)
- 1773Amédée-François Frézier — French scientist, spy and explorer (1682-1773)
- 1806John Graves Simcoe — British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1752-1806)
- 1817Nicolás Joseph Jacquin — chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)
- 1840Nicholas Aylward Vigors — Irish zoologist and politician (1785–1840)
- 1871Robert Anderson — Union Army general (1805–1871)
- 1890Carlo Collodi — Italian writer (1826–1890)
- 1902Elizabeth Cady Stanton — American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist (1815–1902)
- 1909Itō Hirobumi — 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)
- 1919Akashi Motojiro — Imperial Japanese Army general (1864–1919)
- 1923Charles Proteus Steinmetz — Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineer (1865–1923)
- 1932Margaret Brown — survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867–1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist
- 1937Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki — Polish general (1867-1937)
- 1941Arkady Gaidar — Soviet children's writer (1904–1941)
- 1943Aurel Stein — Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943)
- 1944Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom — youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1857–1944)
- 1944William Temple — Archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)
- 1944Hiroyoshi Nishizawa — pilot for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II (1920–1944)
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