Historical Events In January - 26

0066  5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet on this day in history.  

0946  Eadgyth, German Queen on this day in history.  

1109  On January - 26 albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies  

1340  On this day in history english king Edward III proclaimed king of France  

1500  Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil on this day in history.  

1531  Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die on January - 26.  

1564  The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism on January - 26.  

1567  Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.  

1589  On January - 26 job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.  

1611  On January - 26 madame de Poutrincourt leaves Dieppe, France with Jesuits Pierre Biard and Enémond Masse and her son, Charles Biencourt; first titled lady, first Jesuits in Canada  

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1613  On January - 26 johann Jakob Wolleb, composer  

1654  On January - 26 portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife  

1666  On January - 26 france declares war on England &Münster  

1666  On this day in history france declares war on England & Munster  

1667  Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies on this day in history.  

1689  On January - 26 jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr  

1697  On January - 26 isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night  

1699  Venice, Poland &Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey on this day in history.  

1699  Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey on January - 26.  

1700  On this day in history this great earthquake occurred about 9 pm on the Cascadia Fault, the boundary between the North American and Juan de Fuca plates. This was almost 100 years before the first European explorers made contact with native peoples on the west coast. This was one of the world's great earthquakes with a magnitude estimated at 9.  

1700  On this day in history the magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.  

1706  On this day in history guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59  

1708  On this day in history william Hayes, composer  

1714  The birth of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor on January - 26.  

1714  On January - 26 jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage)  

1715  On January - 26 claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher  

1716  On January - 26 george Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville  

1722  Prestonpans on this day in history.  

1736  Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne on January - 26.  

1742  Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer on January - 26.  

1748  England, Netherlands, Austria &Sardinia sign anti-French treaty on this day in history.  

1748  England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty on this day in history.  

1748  On this day in history emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer  

1763  Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) on this day in history.  

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1497  Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557) was born on this day in history.  

1541  On January - 26 birth of florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)  

1613  Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer was born on January - 26.  

1667  Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on January - 26.  

1708  On January - 26 birth of william Hayes, composer  

1714  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) was born on this day in history.  

1715  On January - 26 birth of claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher  

1716  George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville was born on this day in history.  

0946  Death of Eadgyth, German Queen on this day in history.  

1109  On this day in history albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies  

1567  Death of Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.  

1630  On this day in history death of henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)  

1636  Death of Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) on this day in history.  

1697  On this day in history death of georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)  

1706  Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1744  On this day in history death of ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)