Historical Events In November - 26
Monday, 18 March 2024
1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) on November - 26.
1778 On November - 26 capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands [now Hawaii])
1778 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68 on November - 26.
1784 On November - 26 catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 On November - 26 first national thanksgiving day celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers
1789 The first national thanksgiving on this day in history.
1789 1st national Thanksgiving on November - 26.
1793 On November - 26 republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1795 Carl P Fohr, German painter on this day in history.
1805 On November - 26 official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1809 On November - 26 mariano Obiols, composer
1809 On this day in history nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
1810 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const (hydr crane) on this day in history.
1810 Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.
1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army) on November - 26.
1818 On this day in history louis Lacombe, composer
1821 On November - 26 friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
1822 Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53 on November - 26.
1823 On this day in history thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
1825 On this day in history the first college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY)) on November - 26.
1827 Alfred Moore Scales, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on November - 26.
1832 On November - 26 the first streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12«. fare)
1832 On this day in history 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1832 Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader on this day in history.
1835 HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ on this day in history.
1841 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan on this day in history.
1842 On this day in history the University of Notre Dame is founded.
1847 On this day in history alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris
1850 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929) on this day in history.
1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies on this day in history.
1855 On this day in history adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1857 On this day in history joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1859 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round on this day in history.
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