The August 26th is the 238e Jour of the Année (239e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1066 : The town of Huy (Belgium) obtains the first charter of communal freedoms granted in Western Europe, granted to thank the inhabitants for their contribution to the rebuilding of the church of Notre-Dame.

• 1071 : Battle of Manzikert, demolished of the Byzantine emperor Romain IV Diogène
• 1297: Battle of Furnes, in Western Flanders, that Philippe IV Beautiful the comes to occupy, with the head of its army.
• 1323 : Gasbert de Valle or of the Valley , hitherto bishop of Marseilles is named archbishop of Arles by the Pape Jean XXII.
• 1346 : Battle of Crécy: the English beat the French with Crécy-in-Ponthieu. It is the beginning of the Guerre One hundred Year old and the end of the feudal organization of the armies.
• 1629 : Agreement of Cambridge
• 1648: Day of the barricades in Paris. The regent Anne of Austria and Mazarin make stop the president Pierre Broussel Parlement of Paris. It is the culminating point of the parliamentary sling.
• 1660 : Entry of Louis XIV and Marie-Therese from Austria in Paris after their marriage with Saint-Jean-with-Luz the June 9th, 1660. Presentation of the new queen to the Parisian ones.
• 1789 : Promulgation of the Declaration of the Human rights and the Citizen approved by the constituent Assembly to Versailles
• 1813: Beginning of the Battle of Dresden, opponent Napoleon with the troops of the Sixth coalition.
• 1830 : Beginning of the Belgian Revolution
• 1837: The first line of transporting Railroad of France of the travellers between Paris and Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer is inaugurated.
• 1847 : The Liberia proclaims its independence
• 1858: First news sent by Telegraph
• 1883: Eruption of the Mount Krakatoa.

XXe century

• 1914 : The German put in rout the Russian at the time of the Bataille of Tannenberg

• 1920: The 19th amendment of the Constitution of the United States gives the right to vote with the women
• 1936: The Egypt reaches independence
• 1944: Charles de Gaulle enters to Paris.
• 1954 : The France refuses the treaty of the European Community of defense (CED).
• 1972 : Opening of the Olympic Games of summer of 1972 with Munich, in Germany
• 1976: Raymond Barre becomes Prime Minister
• 1977: Adoption of the Charter of the French language by the National Assembly of Quebec
• 1978: Election of Albino Luciani which becomes the Pape Jean Paul I {{er}}
• 1978: Sigmund Jähn becomes the first German Cosmonaute on board the Soyuz 33
• 1985: Contemporary art: packing with fabric of the New Bridge with Paris by the artist Christo.
• 1988 : Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle.

XXIe century

• 2003 : The team of investigation of the accident Columbia publishes his final report on the catastrophe of the Columbia shuttle.

Births

• 1728 : Johann Heinrich Lambert, Franco-German mathematician († September 25th 1777)
• 1740: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventive French
• 1743: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist († 1794)
• 1880: Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
• 1819: Adolphe Cochery, French politician
• 1885: Jules Romans, French writer
• 1897: Yoon Boseon, President of the South Korea († 1990)
• 1898: Peggy Guggenheim, collector of art († 1979)
• 1900: Hellmuth Walter, inventor and engineer († 1980)
• 1904: Christopher Isherwood, writer († 1986)
• 1906: Albert Sabin, researcher on the polio († 1993)
• 1909: Jim Davis, actor († 1981)
• 1910: Mother Teresa, religious Indian catholic, Nobel Prize of peace († 1997)
• 1914: Julio Cortázar, writer († 1984)
• 1921: Benjamin Bradlee, journalist
• 1922: Irving R. Levine, journalist
• 1932: Joseph H. Engle, American astronaut
• 1934: Camille Chamoun, president of the Lebanese Republic
• 1935: Dimitri, Swiss clown
• 1937: Nina Companéez, scenario writer and French director.
• 1942 : John E. Blaha, American astronaut
• 1944: Maureen Tucker, American musician, threshing-machine of the group The Velvet Underground.
• 1946 : Valerie Simpson, singer
• 1952: Michael To throw, actor († 2003)
• 1959: Kathryn P. Hire, American astronaut
• 1960: Branford Marsalis, saxophonist
• 1961: Daniel Lévi, singer, author, French type-setter
• 1971: Thalía, Mexican actress
• 1980: Macaulay Culkin, actor
• 1986: Cassie, American singer

Death

• 1346 : At the time of the Battle of Crécy, with Crécy-in-Ponthieu, in the Somme:

• Jean of Luxembourg, known as the Blind man , 50 years, king of Bohemia, being useful in the French Army. (° August 12th 1296).
• Charles II of Alençon, 49 years, count d' Alençon, count of the Pole. (° v. 1297).
• Louis I {{er}} of Flanders born Louis de Dampierre , known as Louis Ier of Nevers , 42 years, count de Flandre. (° v. 1304).
• Raoul of Lorraine, known as '' Valiant the '', 36 years, duke of Lorraine. (° 1320).
• Henri IV of Vaudémont, count de Vaudémont.
• Jean IV of Harcourt, count d' Harcourt, Viscount of Chatellerault.
• 1769 : Jacopo Facciolati, 87 years, Lexicographer and Philologist Italy N. (° January 4th 1682).
• 1850 : Louis-Philippe Ier, 76 years, King of the French. (° October 6th 1773).
• 1930 : Lon Chaney, 47 years, American actor . (° April 1st 1883).
• 1945 : Franz Werfel, 54 years, poet, novelist and Austrian playwright . (° September 10th 1890).
• 1974 : Charles Lindbergh, 72 years, American aviator, pioneer of aviation. (° February 4th 1902).
• 1975 : Hailé Sélassié I {{er}}, 83 years, last emperor of Ethiopia of 1930 with 1936 and of 1941 with 1974. (° July 23rd 1892).
• 1977 : Hans Augusto Rey, known as H.A. Rey , German writer , author of books for youth. (° September 16th 1898).
• 1978 : Charles Boyer, 80 years, actor French. (° August 28th 1897).
• 1979 : Mika Waltari, 70 years, writer Finnish. (° (September 19th 1908).
• 1980 : Tex Avery, 72 years, film producer of animation. (° (February 26th 1908).
• 1986 : Ted Knight, 62 years, American actor . (° December 7th 1923).
• 1989 : Irving Stone, 86 years, American writer . (° July 14th 1903).
• 1992 : Daniel Gorenstein, 69 years, American Mathematician (° January 1st 1923)
• 2005: Denis D' Amour, 45 years, Canadian musician , guitarist of the group of heavy metal Voivod. (° September 24th 1959).
• 2004 : Laura Branigan, 47 years, American singer . (° July 3rd 1957).
• 2006 : To groove Barzel, 82 years, German politician . (° June 20th 1924).
• 2007 : Gaston Thorn, 78 years, Prime Minister for the Luxembourg (1974 - 1979), President of the European commission (1981 - 1985). (° September 3rd 1928).

Celebrations

First names

• Natalie, Nathalie or Natacha

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Holy Nathalie, wife of Adrien de Nicomédie, martyrs († ~ 306). (celebrated together in the East, and only Nathalie in Occident)

See too

• August 26th in sport
• August 26th in the railroads

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