WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. FEBRUARY
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Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era. (26. February 747. BC)

Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. (26. February 364)

Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, after besieging it for months. (26. February 1233)

Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples. (26. February 1266)

The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down. (26. February 1794)

Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba. (26. February 1815)

Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China. (26. February 1876)

Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London. (26. February 1909)

HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. (26. February 1914)

The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York. (26. February 1917)

President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park. (26. February 1919)

The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, receives its première in Berlin. (26. February 1920)

President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. (26. February 1929)

Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. (26. February 1935)

Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom. (26. February 1935)

In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government. (26. February 1936)

Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets. (26. February 1946)

Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada. (26. February 1952)

A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board. (26. February 1960)

Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket (26. February 1966)