About August 26

August 26, 2025 is the 238th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 175 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On August 26

  • 55 –
    Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Great Britain.
  • 1303 –
    Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
  • 1444 –
    Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of ‘Armagnacs’near Basel.
  • 1748 –
    The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 1789 –
    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
  • 1810 –
    The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
  • 1813 –
    War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
  • 1814 –
    Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
  • 1821 –
    The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is oficially opened.
  • 1883 –
    The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
  • 1914 –
    World War I: the British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau that briefly checks the German advance.
  • 1940 –
    Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
  • 1957 –
    The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket . . . a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS.
  • 1966 –
    The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
  • 1977 –
    The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
  • 1978 –
    Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
  • 1980 –
    John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, US.
  • 1997 –
    Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
  • 2011 –
    The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA

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