Birthday Timeline

By Joey N Palmquist
  • Jul 26, 811

    Battle of Pliska: Bulgarians under Krum beat Byzantines

  • Jul 26, 920

    Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.

  • Jul 26, 1309

    Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

  • Jul 26, 1519

    Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

  • 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)

  • Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, Ireland.

  • Japanese Assets Seized Jul. 26th 1941

    Japanese Assets Seized Jul. 26th 1941 : President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.

  • Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII

  • Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime

  • Suez Crisis Begins 26th July 1956

    Suez Crisis Begins 26th July 1956 : The Suez Crisis begins when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the British and French-owned Suez Canal hoping to charge tolls that would pay for construction of of the Aswan dam on the Nile .