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.
- 1071 –Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
- 1303 –Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
- 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.
- 1466 –A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
- 1748 –The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1789 –The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
- 1791 –John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
- 1813 –War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
- 1978 –Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
- 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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