Historical Events In November - 26

0399  St Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope   

0399  Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies.   

0579  In this year, Pelagius II starts his reign as Catholic Pope.   

0666  Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665).   

0783  The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus   

1126  Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated   

1240  Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies.   

1267  Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies   

1476  Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and is recorded as becoming the ruler of Wallachia for the third time   

1527  Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I.   

1580  French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty.   

1598  Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java.   

1607  John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ.   

1621  Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540)   

1640  Carl Rosier, composer   

1648  Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen   

1651  Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40.   

1653  Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer.   

1653  Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51.   

1663  Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)   

1688  Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg   

1688  Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53.   

1702  Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter".   

1703  Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships.   

1703  -27] Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed   

1716  The inaugural lion exhibited in America (Boston).   

1716  1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)   

1731  William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS].   

1736  Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)   

1741  French and Beiers army occupies Prague.   

1744  Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer.   

1754  Georg Forster, writer   

1764  France bans Jesuit enorde.   

1776  Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies   

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1288  Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339) was born on November - 26.   

1436  On this day in history birth of princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)   

1607  John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ was born on this day in history.   

1609  On this day in history birth of henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)   

1640  Carl Rosier, composer was born on November - 26.   

1653  Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer was born on November - 26.   

1657  On November - 26 birth of william Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)   

1663  Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas) was born on November - 26.   

0399  On November - 26 siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies   

0666  On November - 26 death of yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)   

1126  On November - 26 death of al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated   

1240  Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1252  On this day in history death of blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)   

1267  Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies on November - 26.   

1326  Death of Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286) on this day in history.   

1504  On this day in history death of queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)