Historical Events In January - 26

0066  5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet on this day in history.   

0946  Eadgyth, German Queen on January - 26.   

1109  Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.   

1340  On this day in history english king Edward III proclaimed king of France   

1500  Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil on this day in history.   

1531  Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die on January - 26.   

1564  On this day in history the Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.   

1567  Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.   

1589  Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia on January - 26.   

1611  Madame de Poutrincourt leaves Dieppe, France with Jesuits Pierre Biard and Enémond Masse and her son, Charles Biencourt; first titled lady, first Jesuits in Canada on this day in history.   

1613  Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer on January - 26.   

1654  Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife on this day in history.   

1666  On this day in history france declares war on England &Münster   

1666  On January - 26 france declares war on England & Munster   

1667  Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies on this day in history.   

1689  Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr on January - 26.   

1697  Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night on January - 26.   

1699  On January - 26 venice, Poland &Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey   

1699  On January - 26 venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey   

1700  On this day in history this great earthquake occurred about 9 pm on the Cascadia Fault, the boundary between the North American and Juan de Fuca plates. This was almost 100 years before the first European explorers made contact with native peoples on the west coast. This was one of the world's great earthquakes with a magnitude estimated at 9.   

1700  On this day in history the magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.   

1706  Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on January - 26.   

1708  On this day in history william Hayes, composer   

1714  On this day in history the birth of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor   

1714  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) on January - 26.   

1715  Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher on January - 26.   

1716  George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville on January - 26.   

1722  On this day in history prestonpans   

1736  Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne on January - 26.   

1742  On this day in history johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer   

1748  On this day in history england, Netherlands, Austria &Sardinia sign anti-French treaty   

1748  England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty on this day in history.   

1748  On this day in history emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer   

1763  Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) on January - 26.   

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1497  On January - 26 birth of emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)   

1541  Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596) was born on January - 26.   

1613  On January - 26 birth of johann Jakob Wolleb, composer   

1667  On January - 26 birth of henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies   

1708  On this day in history birth of william Hayes, composer   

1714  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) was born on this day in history.   

1715  Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher was born on January - 26.   

1716  On January - 26 birth of george Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville   

0946  On January - 26 death of eadgyth, German Queen   

1109  On this day in history albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies   

1567  Death of Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.   

1630  Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) on this day in history.   

1636  On January - 26 death of jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)   

1697  Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) on this day in history.   

1706  Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1744  Death of Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) on January - 26.