On November 26, history records 43 notable events, 214 famous births and 107 deaths, spanning the years 783 to 1863.
Events on this day include: The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. (783); Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin-Song Wars. (1161).
Notable people born on November 26 include Rudesind (907), Emperor Go-Daigo (1288), Catherine of Portugal (nun) (1436).
Notable figures who died on this day include Pope Siricius (399), Li Congyan (946), Conrad of Constance (975).
Events on 26 November 43
See all →The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin-Song Wars.
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.
In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
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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Birthdays on 26 November 214
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