WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. MAY
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Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point. (26. May 47. BC)

Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe. (26. May 17)

Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity. (26. May 451)

King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day. (26. May 946)

Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of all of Spain". (26. May 1135)

An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000. (26. May 1293)

William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII. (26. May 1328)

Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years. (26. May 1538)

The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence. (26. May 1573)

Mystic massacre in the Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans. (26. May 1637)

Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo. (26. May 1644)

Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies. (26. May 1647)

Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under the governor of Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France. (26. May 1736)

The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks. (26. May 1770)

A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution. (26. May 1783)

Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan. (26. May 1805)

Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels. (26. May 1821)

116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history. (26. May 1822)

Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. (26. May 1828)

The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later. (26. May 1830)