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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Valentinian I: Restoring Roman Stability (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)

10 min • 26 februari 2025

A Daily Dose of History (26 Feb 2025)

Today's historical events:

  • Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor.
  • Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
  • The Janszoon voyage of 1605-06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea.
  • Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
  • The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
  • The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.
  • The Beach Pneumatic Transit in New York City, intending as a demonstration for a subway line opens.
  • Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
  • Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
  • President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km2) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

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