Events on 26 November 43
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The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
Year 1161
Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin-Song Wars.
Year 1476
Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
Year 1778
In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
Year 1789
A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
Year 1825
At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
Year 1863
United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. (Since 1941, it has been on the fourth Thursday.)
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