Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 26
On May 26: Shavuot observed at sundown (2004). Independence Day in Guyana (1966).
- 1328 - William of Ockham secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
- 1637 – Pequot War: An allied Puritan and Mohegan force attacked a Pequot village, killing 500.
- 1830 – The Indian Removal Act was passed by the United States Congress.
- 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1986 – The European Community adopted the European flag.