About October 26
October 26, 2025 is the 299th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 114 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 26
- 1597 –Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
- 1640 –The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- 1774 –The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1775 –King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
- 1776 –Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- 1795 –The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
- 1860 –Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
- 1909 –Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
- 1917 –World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
- 1918 –Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
- 1942 –World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
- 1947 –The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
- 1955 –Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- 1964 –Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
- 1967 –Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
- 1968 –Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
- 1992 –The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- 1994 –Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
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