About August 26

August 26, 2025 is the 238th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 175 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.
  • 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.
  • 1429 –
    Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1768 –
    Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
  • 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.
  • 1810 –
    The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
  • 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.
  • 1821 –
    The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is oficially opened.
  • 1883 –
    The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
  • 1977 –
    The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
  • 1980 –
    John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, US.
  • 1999 –
    Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • 2002 –
    Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 2011 –
    The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA

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