WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. DECEMBER
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Coronation of King Stephen of England. (26. December 1135)

Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. (26. December 1481)

American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries. (26. December 1776)

Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. (26. December 1790)

Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria. (26. December 1793)

The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place. (26. December 1793)

Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." (26. December 1799)

Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg. (26. December 1805)

Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon. (26. December 1806)

A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable. (26. December 1811)

Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg. (26. December 1825)

Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism. (26. December 1846)

The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. (26. December 1860)

American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom. (26. December 1861)

American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins. (26. December 1862)

Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship. (26. December 1862)

The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die. (26. December 1862)

The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. (26. December 1870)

Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years. (26. December 1871)

The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. (26. December 1883)