July 26 All Events |
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| July 26th, 2007 (July 26 2007) | Death | Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (born in 1928) | |
| July 26th, 2007 (July 26 2007) | Death | John Normington, English actor (born in 1937) | |
| July 26th, 2007 (July 26 2007) | Death | Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (born in 1950) | |
| July 26th, 2006 (July 26 2006) | Event | Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days. | |
| July 26th, 2005 (July 26 2005) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-114 MissionLaunch of Discovery, NASA s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. | |
| July 26th, 2005 (July 26 2005) | Death | Betty Astell, British actress (born in 1912) | |
| July 26th, 2005 (July 26 2005) | Death | Alexander Golitzen, American art director (born in 1908) | |
| July 26th, 2005 (July 26 2005) | Death | Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (born in 1925) | |
| July 26th, 2005 (July 26 2005) | Death | Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1945) | |
| July 26th, 2001 (July 26 2001) | Death | Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (born in 1917) | |
| July 26th, 2001 (July 26 2001) | Death | Peter von Zahn, German journalist (born in 1913) | |
| July 26th, 2000 (July 26 2000) | Death | John Tukey, American statistician (born in 1915) | |
| July 26th, 1995 (July 26 1995) | Death | Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (born in 1917) | |
| July 26th, 1995 (July 26 1995) | Death | Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (born in 1918) | |
| July 26th, 1995 (July 26 1995) | Death | George Romney, American businessman and politician (born in 1907) | |
| July 26th, 1994 (July 26 1994) | Event | Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
| July 26th, 1993 (July 26 1993) | Birth | Taylor Momsen, American actress | |
| July 26th, 1993 (July 26 1993) | Death | Matthew Ridgeway, American army general (born in 1895) | |
| July 26th, 1992 (July 26 1992) | Death | Mary Wells, American singer (born in 1943) | |
| July 26th, 1990 (July 26 1990) | Event | The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| July 26th, 1990 (July 26 1990) | Death | Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (born in 1952) | |
| July 26th, 1989 (July 26 1989) | Event | A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | |
| July 26th, 1988 (July 26 1988) | Birth | Lara Jean Marshall, Australian actress | |
| July 26th, 1988 (July 26 1988) | Death | Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (born in 1919) | |
| July 26th, 1987 (July 26 1987) | Birth | Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress | |
| July 26th, 1986 (July 26 1986) | Death | Averell Harriman, American diplomat (born in 1891) | |
| July 26th, 1985 (July 26 1985) | Birth | Gael Clichy, French footballer | |
| July 26th, 1985 (July 26 1985) | Birth | Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer | |
| July 26th, 1984 (July 26 1984) | Death | George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (born in 1901) | George Gallup Quotes |
| July 26th, 1984 (July 26 1984) | Death | Ed Gein, American serial killer (born in 1906) | |
| July 26th, 1983 (July 26 1983) | Birth | Delonte West, American basketball player | |
| July 26th, 1983 (July 26 1983) | Birth | Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler | |
| July 26th, 1982 (July 26 1982) | Birth | Chez Starbuck, American actor | |
| July 26th, 1981 (July 26 1981) | Birth | Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director | |
| July 26th, 1980 (July 26 1980) | Birth | Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41) | |
| July 26th, 1980 (July 26 1980) | Birth | Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor | |
| July 26th, 1980 (July 26 1980) | Death | Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (born in 1928) | |
| July 26th, 1979 (July 26 1979) | Birth | Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| July 26th, 1979 (July 26 1979) | Birth | Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player | |
| July 26th, 1977 (July 26 1977) | Event | The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. | |
| July 26th, 1977 (July 26 1977) | Birth | Martin Laursen, Danish footballer | |
| July 26th, 1977 (July 26 1977) | Birth | Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer | |
| July 26th, 1976 (July 26 1976) | Birth | Brad Wilkins, American architect | |
| July 26th, 1975 (July 26 1975) | Event | Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal. | |
| July 26th, 1975 (July 26 1975) | Birth | Joe Smith, American basketball player | |
| July 26th, 1974 (July 26 1974) | Event | Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country s first civil government after seven years of military rule. | |
| July 26th, 1974 (July 26 1974) | Birth | Dean Sturridge, English Footballer | |
| July 26th, 1974 (July 26 1974) | Birth | Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player | |
| July 26th, 1974 (July 26 1974) | Birth | Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go) | |
| July 26th, 1973 (July 26 1973) | Birth | Kate Beckinsale, British actress | |
| July 26th, 1973 (July 26 1973) | Birth | Lenka Sarounova, Czech astronomer | |
| July 26th, 1971 (July 26 1971) | Event | Apollo Program: Apollo 15 MissionLaunch of Apollo 15. | |
| July 26th, 1971 (July 26 1971) | Death | Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (born in 1923) | |
| July 26th, 1970 (July 26 1970) | Birth | Joan Wasser, American singer and musician | |
| July 26th, 1970 (July 26 1970) | Death | Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (born in 1896) | |
| July 26th, 1969 (July 26 1969) | Death | Frank Loesser, American composer (born in 1910) | |
| July 26th, 1968 (July 26 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. | |
| July 26th, 1968 (July 26 1968) | Birth | Olivia Williams, English actress | |
| July 26th, 1967 (July 26 1967) | Birth | Tim Schafer, American computer game designer | |
| July 26th, 1966 (July 26 1966) | Event | Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent. | |
| July 26th, 1965 (July 26 1965) | Event | Full independence was granted to the Maldives. | |
| July 26th, 1965 (July 26 1965) | Birth | Jeremy Piven, American actor | |
| July 26th, 1965 (July 26 1965) | Birth | Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise) | |
| July 26th, 1964 (July 26 1964) | Birth | Sandra Bullock, American actress | Sandra Bullock Quotes |
| July 26th, 1964 (July 26 1964) | Birth | Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer | |
| July 26th, 1964 (July 26 1964) | Birth | Danny Woodburn, American actor | |
| July 26th, 1964 (July 26 1964) | Death | Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (born in 1884) | |
| July 26th, 1963 (July 26 1963) | Event | Syncom 2, the world s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. | |
| July 26th, 1963 (July 26 1963) | Event | Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia)1100 dead | |
| July 26th, 1963 (July 26 1963) | Event | The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan. | |
| July 26th, 1961 (July 26 1961) | Birth | Gary Cherone, American musician (Extreme) | |
| July 26th, 1961 (July 26 1961) | Birth | Andy Connell, English musician (Swing Out Sister, A Certain Ratio) | |
| July 26th, 1961 (July 26 1961) | Birth | Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer | |
| July 26th, 1961 (July 26 1961) | Birth | Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer | |
| July 26th, 1960 (July 26 1960) | Death | Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (born in 1879) | |
| July 26th, 1960 (July 26 1960) | Death | Cedric Gibbons, American art director (born in 1893) | |
| July 26th, 1959 (July 26 1959) | Birth | Rick Bragg, American writer | |
| July 26th, 1959 (July 26 1959) | Birth | Kevin Spacey, American actor | |
| July 26th, 1959 (July 26 1959) | Birth | Michael Ross, American serial killer (died in 2005) | |
| July 26th, 1958 (July 26 1958) | Event | Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. | |
| July 26th, 1957 (July 26 1957) | Event | Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated | |
| July 26th, 1957 (July 26 1957) | Birth | Nana Visitor, American actress | |
| July 26th, 1957 (July 26 1957) | Birth | Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor | |
| July 26th, 1957 (July 26 1957) | Birth | Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer | |
| July 26th, 1956 (July 26 1956) | Event | Following the World Bank s decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. | |
| July 26th, 1956 (July 26 1956) | Birth | Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater | |
| July 26th, 1954 (July 26 1954) | Birth | Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (died in 1994) | |
| July 26th, 1953 (July 26 1953) | Event | Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| July 26th, 1953 (July 26 1953) | Event | Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid. | |
| July 26th, 1953 (July 26 1953) | Birth | Robert Phillips, classical guitarist | |
| July 26th, 1953 (July 26 1953) | Death | Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (born in 1883) | |
| July 26th, 1952 (July 26 1952) | Event | King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad. | |
| July 26th, 1952 (July 26 1952) | Death | Eva Peron, First Lady of Argentina and wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (born in 1919) | |
| July 26th, 1951 (July 26 1951) | Birth | Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| July 26th, 1950 (July 26 1950) | Birth | Susan George, English actress | |
| July 26th, 1950 (July 26 1950) | Birth | Nelinho, Brazilian footballer | |
| July 26th, 1950 (July 26 1950) | Birth | Rich Vogler, American race car driver (died in 1990) | |
| July 26th, 1949 (July 26 1949) | Birth | Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen) | |
| July 26th, 1949 (July 26 1949) | Birth | Thaksin Shinawatra, ex-Prime Minister of Thailand | |
| July 26th, 1948 (July 26 1948) | Event | U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
| July 26th, 1947 (July 26 1947) | Event | Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
| July 26th, 1946 (July 26 1946) | Event | Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport | |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Event | The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Event | The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. | |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Event | The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. | |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Birth | Helen Mirren, English actress | |
| July 26th, 1944 (July 26 1944) | Event | World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation. | |
| July 26th, 1944 (July 26 1944) | Event | The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain. | |
| July 26th, 1944 (July 26 1944) | Birth | Kiel Martin, American actor (died in 1990) | |
| July 26th, 1943 (July 26 1943) | Birth | Peter Hyams, American film director | |
| July 26th, 1943 (July 26 1943) | Birth | Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones) | Mick Jagger Quotes |
| July 26th, 1942 (July 26 1942) | Birth | Vladimir Meciar, Slovak prime minister | |
| July 26th, 1942 (July 26 1942) | Birth | Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver | |
| July 26th, 1942 (July 26 1942) | Death | Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (born in 1900) | |
| July 26th, 1941 (July 26 1941) | Event | World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. | |
| July 26th, 1941 (July 26 1941) | Birth | Bobby Hebb, American musician | |
| July 26th, 1941 (July 26 1941) | Birth | Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter | |
| July 26th, 1941 (July 26 1941) | Death | Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (born in 1875) | |
| July 26th, 1940 (July 26 1940) | Birth | Dobie Gray, American singer | |
| July 26th, 1940 (July 26 1940) | Birth | Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (died in 1969) | Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| July 26th, 1940 (July 26 1940) | Birth | Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player | |
| July 26th, 1940 (July 26 1940) | Birth | Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer | |
| July 26th, 1939 (July 26 1939) | Birth | John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia | |
| July 26th, 1939 (July 26 1939) | Birth | Bob Lilly, American football player | |
| July 26th, 1938 (July 26 1938) | Birth | Darlene Love, American singer | |
| July 26th, 1937 (July 26 1937) | Event | End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| July 26th, 1936 (July 26 1936) | Event | The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| July 26th, 1936 (July 26 1936) | Birth | Mary Millar, English actress (died in 1998) | |
| July 26th, 1935 (July 26 1935) | Death | Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (born in 1871) | |
| July 26th, 1934 (July 26 1934) | Event | Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. | |
| July 26th, 1932 (July 26 1932) | Death | Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (born in 1876) | |
| July 26th, 1931 (July 26 1931) | Birth | Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast | |
| July 26th, 1929 (July 26 1929) | Birth | Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician | |
| July 26th, 1929 (July 26 1929) | Birth | Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist | |
| July 26th, 1928 (July 26 1928) | Birth | Don Beauman, British racing driver (died in 1955) | |
| July 26th, 1928 (July 26 1928) | Birth | Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic | |
| July 26th, 1928 (July 26 1928) | Birth | Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (died in 1980) | |
| July 26th, 1928 (July 26 1928) | Birth | Stanley Kubrick, American film director (died in 1999) | |
| July 26th, 1928 (July 26 1928) | Birth | Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician | |
| July 26th, 1926 (July 26 1926) | Birth | James Best, American actor | |
| July 26th, 1926 (July 26 1926) | Birth | Ana Maria Matute, Spanish author | |
| July 26th, 1925 (July 26 1925) | Birth | Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (died in 2000) | |
| July 26th, 1925 (July 26 1925) | Death | Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (born in 1848) | |
| July 26th, 1925 (July 26 1925) | Death | William Jennings Bryan, American politician (born in 1860) | William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| July 26th, 1925 (July 26 1925) | Death | Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (born in 1888) | |
| July 26th, 1923 (July 26 1923) | Birth | Jan Berenstain, American author | |
| July 26th, 1923 (July 26 1923) | Birth | Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (died in 2002) | |
| July 26th, 1922 (July 26 1922) | Birth | Blake Edwards, American film director | |
| July 26th, 1922 (July 26 1922) | Birth | Jason Robards, American actor (died in 2000) | |
| July 26th, 1921 (July 26 1921) | Birth | Jean Shepherd, American writer (died in 1999) | |
| July 26th, 1920 (July 26 1920) | Birth | Bob Waterfield, American football player (died in 1983) | |
| July 26th, 1919 (July 26 1919) | Birth | Virginia Gilmore, American actress (died in 1986) | |
| July 26th, 1919 (July 26 1919) | Death | Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (born in 1836) | |
| July 26th, 1918 (July 26 1918) | Birth | Marjorie Lord, American actress | |
| July 26th, 1914 (July 26 1914) | Event | Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship. | |
| July 26th, 1914 (July 26 1914) | Birth | Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (died in 1993) | |
| July 26th, 1914 (July 26 1914) | Birth | Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (died in 1968) | |
| July 26th, 1909 (July 26 1909) | Birth | Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (died in 1994) | |
| July 26th, 1909 (July 26 1909) | Birth | Vivian Vance, American actress (died in 1979) | |
| July 26th, 1908 (July 26 1908) | Event | 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). | Chief Joseph Quotes |
| July 26th, 1906 (July 26 1906) | Birth | Irena Illakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (died in 1943) | |
| July 26th, 1903 (July 26 1903) | Birth | Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (died in 1963) | |
| July 26th, 1897 (July 26 1897) | Birth | Paul Gallico, American author (died in 1976) | |
| July 26th, 1896 (July 26 1896) | Birth | Henry Birkin, British racing driver (died in 1933) | |
| July 26th, 1895 (July 26 1895) | Birth | Jane Bunford, Britain s tallest-ever person (died in 1922) | |
| July 26th, 1895 (July 26 1895) | Birth | Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (died in 1964) | |
| July 26th, 1894 (July 26 1894) | Birth | Aldous Huxley, English-born author (died in 1963) | Aldous Huxley Quotes |
| July 26th, 1892 (July 26 1892) | Birth | Sam Jones, American baseball player (died in 1966) | |
| July 26th, 1891 (July 26 1891) | Event | France annexes Tahiti. | |
| July 26th, 1886 (July 26 1886) | Birth | Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (died in 1965) | |
| July 26th, 1885 (July 26 1885) | Birth | Andre Maurois, French author (died in 1967) | |
| July 26th, 1882 (July 26 1882) | Event | Premiere of Richard Wagner s Parsifal at Bayreuth. | Richard Wagner Quotes |
| July 26th, 1880 (July 26 1880) | Birth | Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (died in 1951) | |
| July 26th, 1878 (July 26 1878) | Event | In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside. | Will Self Quotes |
| July 26th, 1875 (July 26 1875) | Birth | Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (died in 1961) | Carl Jung Quotes |
| July 26th, 1875 (July 26 1875) | Birth | Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (died in 1939) | Antonio Machado Quotes |
| July 26th, 1874 (July 26 1874) | Birth | Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (died in 1951) | |
| July 26th, 1867 (July 26 1867) | Death | King Otto of Greece (born in 1815) | |
| July 26th, 1865 (July 26 1865) | Birth | Philipp Scheidemann, 1st Chancellors of the Weimar Republic (died in 1939) | |
| July 26th, 1863 (July 26 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Morgan s Raid endsAt Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. | |
| July 26th, 1863 (July 26 1863) | Death | Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (born in 1793) | |
| July 26th, 1861 (July 26 1861) | Event | 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. | |
| July 26th, 1856 (July 26 1856) | Birth | George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (died in 1950) | George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| July 26th, 1855 (July 26 1855) | Birth | Ferdinand Tonnies, German sociologist (died in 1936) | |
| July 26th, 1847 (July 26 1847) | Event | Liberia declares independence. | |
| July 26th, 1846 (July 26 1846) | Birth | Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (died in 1880) | |
| July 26th, 1829 (July 26 1829) | Birth | Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, Nobel Laureate (died in 1912) | |
| July 26th, 1822 (July 26 1822) | Event | Jose de San Martin arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simon Bolivar. | Simon Bolivar Quotes |
| July 26th, 1803 (July 26 1803) | Event | The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world s first public railway, opens in south London. | |
| July 26th, 1802 (July 26 1802) | Birth | Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (died in 1855) | |
| July 26th, 1791 (July 26 1791) | Birth | Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (died in 1844) | |
| July 26th, 1788 (July 26 1788) | Event | New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States. | |
| July 26th, 1782 (July 26 1782) | Birth | John Field, Irish composer (died in 1837) | |
| July 26th, 1775 (July 26 1775) | Event | The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress. | |
| July 26th, 1723 (July 26 1723) | Death | Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (born in 1660) | |
| July 26th, 1712 (July 26 1712) | Death | Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (born in 1631) | |
| July 26th, 1684 (July 26 1684) | Death | Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (born in 1646) | |
| July 26th, 1680 (July 26 1680) | Death | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (born in 1647) | |
| July 26th, 1678 (July 26 1678) | Birth | Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (died in 1711) | |
| July 26th, 1611 (July 26 1611) | Death | Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (born in 1542) | |
| July 26th, 1592 (July 26 1592) | Death | Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (born in 1524) | |
| July 26th, 1581 (July 26 1581) | Event | Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II. | |
| July 26th, 1471 (July 26 1471) | Death | Pope Paul II (born in 1417) | |
| July 26th, 1469 (July 26 1469) | Event | Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote MoorPitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV. | |
| July 26th, 1380 (July 26 1380) | Death | Emperor Komyo of Japan (born in 1322) | |
| July 26th, 1309 (July 26 1309) | Event | Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. | |
| July 26th, 1139 (July 26 1139) | Event | Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Leon. | |
| July 26th, 1030 (July 26 1030) | Birth | Stanislaus of Szczepanow, St. Stanislaw (died in 1079) | |
| July 26th, 0920 (July 26 0920) | Event | Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Leon against the Muslims at Pamplona. | |
| July 26th, 0811 (July 26 0811) | Event | Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded. | |
| July 26th, 0811 (July 26 0811) | Death | Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle) | |
| July 26th, 0796 (July 26 0796) | Death | Offa, King of Mercia | |
| July 26th, 0657 (July 26 0657) | Event | Battle of Siffin. | |
