Day In History
This Day in History
Today: April 26, 2026
1336
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.[1]
1478
The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.[2]
1564
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1607
The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1721
A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.[3]
1777
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1794
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1802
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.[4]
1803
Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1805
First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
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