About August 26
August 26, 2021 is the 238th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 159 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 26
- 55 –Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1466 –A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
- 1498 –Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
- 1748 –The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1768 –Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
- 1778 –The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
- 1791 –John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
- 1810 –The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
- 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.
- 1940 –Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
- 1944 –World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
- 1966 –The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
- 1977 –The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
- 1978 –Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
- 1997 –Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
- 1999 –Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
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