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Events on 26 August 34

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Year 683

Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.

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Year 1071

The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.

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Year 1278

Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.

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Year 1303

Alauddin Khalji captures Chittorgarh.

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Year 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.

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Year 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.

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Year 1498

Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.

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Year 1542

Francisco de Orellana navigated the Amazon River, reaching the Atlantic Ocean.

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Year 1748

The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.

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Year 1768

Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.

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Public Holidays Around The World On This Day 3

🇲🇦 Morocco · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇳🇦 Namibia · Heroes' Day

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · National Repentance Day

Birthdays on 26 August 181

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Ferdinand II of Naples

b. 1469 – d. 1496

Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)

Bernardino Poccetti

b. 1548 – d. 1612

Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (d. 1612)

Humilis of Bisignano

b. 1582 – d. 1637

Humilis of Bisignano, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (d. 1637)

Frederick V, Elector Palatine

b. 1596 – d. 1632

Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632)

Robert Walpole

b. 1676 – d. 1745

Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)

Elisha Williams

b. 1694 – d. 1755

Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician (d. 1755)

Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault

b. 1695 – d. 1791

Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter (d. 1791)

Johann Heinrich Lambert

b. 1728 – d. 1777

Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1728)

Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle

b. 1736 – d. 1790

Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790)

Montgolfier brothers

b. 1740 – d. 1810

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)

Antoine Lavoisier

b. 1743 – d. 1794

Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (d. 1794)

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Manuel Abad y Queipo

b. 1751 – d. 1825

Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop (d. 1825)

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Deaths on 26 August 93

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Arechis II of Benevento

d. 787

Arechis II, duke of Benevento

Emperor Kōkō

d. 887 (b. 830)

Kōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 830)

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Michael IV of Constantinople

d. 1214

Michael IV of Constantinople

Ottokar II of Bohemia

d. 1278 (b. 1233)

Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)

Charles II, Count of Alençon

d. 1346 (b. 1297)

Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)

Louis I, Count of Flanders

d. 1346 (b. 1304)

Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)

Louis II, Count of Blois

d. 1346

Louis II, Count of Blois

Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine

d. 1346 (b. 1320)

Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)

John of Bohemia

d. 1346 (b. 1296)

John of Bohemia (b. 1296)

Thomas Bradwardine

d. 1349 (b. 1290)

Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)

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Catherine Zaccaria

d. 1462

Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea

Ernest, Elector of Saxony

d. 1486 (b. 1441)

Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)

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