About August 26
August 26, 2022 is the 238th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 149 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 26
- 1071 –Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
- 1278 –Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
- 1346 –Hundred Years’ War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
- 1444 –Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of ‘Armagnacs’near Basel.
- 1498 –Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
- 1778 –The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
- 1789 –The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
- 1814 –Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
- 1818 –Illinois becomes the 21st state in the union of the United States.
- 1821 –The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is oficially opened.
- 1883 –The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
- 1914 –World War I: the British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau that briefly checks the German advance.
- 1920 –The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
- 1942 –Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
- 1944 –World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
- 1966 –The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
- 1970 –The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women’s Strike for Equality.
- 1978 –Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
- 1999 –Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
- 2011 –The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
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