Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 26
August 26: Heroes' Day in the Philippines and Ghost Festival in the Chinese calendar (2007).
- 1071 – Byzantine-Seljuk wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert (pictured).
- 1346 – Hundred Years' War: English forces established the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights at the Battle of Crécy.
- 1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at Versailles.
- 1968 – The U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention began at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, sparking four days of peaceful–to–violent clashes between anti–Vietnam War protesters and police.
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