WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. JUNE
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Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. (26. June 221)

Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. (26. June 363)

En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. (26. June 699)

Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. (26. June 1409)

Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. (26. June 1541)

Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. (26. June 1718)

After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians. (26. June 1723)

A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. (26. June 1740)

End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. (26. June 1848)

The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. (26. June 1857)

The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. (26. June 1870)

Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. (26. June 1886)

1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held (26. June 1906)

The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi. (26. June 1907)

The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. (26. June 1909)

The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I. (26. June 1917)

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (26. June 1918)

American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. (26. June 1924)

The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. (26. June 1927)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. (26. June 1934)