Historical Events In November - 26
Friday, 26 April 2024
1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) on this day in history.
1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands [now Hawaii]) on November - 26.
1778 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68 on November - 26.
1784 On this day in history catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 First national thanksgiving day celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers on November - 26.
1789 The first national thanksgiving on this day in history.
1789 1st national Thanksgiving on November - 26.
1793 On this day in history republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1795 Carl P Fohr, German painter on this day in history.
1805 Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on November - 26.
1809 Mariano Obiols, composer on November - 26.
1809 On this day in history nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
1810 On this day in history william G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const (hydr crane)
1810 On this day in history nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
1816 On November - 26 william Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 Louis Lacombe, composer on this day in history.
1821 Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57 on November - 26.
1822 On this day in history johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
1823 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer on November - 26.
1825 The first college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY)) on November - 26.
1825 On this day in history 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1827 Alfred Moore Scales, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on November - 26.
1832 On this day in history the first streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12«. fare)
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare) on this day in history.
1832 Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader on this day in history.
1835 On November - 26 hMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1841 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan on November - 26.
1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded on November - 26.
1847 Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris on November - 26.
1850 On November - 26 henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
1854 On November - 26 matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1855 On November - 26 adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1857 On November - 26 joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1859 On this day in history last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round
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