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February 26 in history

212 sourced entries recorded on February 26, from 364 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 364Valentinian I is proclaimed Emperor by officers of the Roman army at Nicaea in Bithynia. He addresses the soldiers (who threaten to riot) in a speech. He founds the Valentinianic dynasty and rules the Western portion of the Roman Empire, from Caledonia (Scotland) to the Rhine frontier, ensuring it a few years of relative security. He settles in Lutetia (Paris) and establishes a militia to defend the region.source
  • 1074Battle of Kemej: King Solomon, King of Hungary routs the army of his cousin Duke Géza with the assistance of German troops.source
  • 1266Battle of Benevento: Guelph forces (some 12,000 men), led by Charles of Anjou, brother of King Louis IX of France, defeat a combined German and Sicilian army under King Manfred of Sicily, during a long-running power struggle in Italy. Manfred takes up a strong position near Benevento. As the French infantry advances, he unleashes his Saracen archers and light cavalry, which scatters the French. But the Saracens leave themselves exposed to the French heavy cavalry, and are overwhelmed. Manfred orders his heavy cavalry (some 1,200 German mercenary knights) into the attack, but they are defeated by the Guelph forces, and take heavy losses. Manfred is killed, and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as ruler of Sicily and Naples. Meanwhile, Michael II, despot of Epirus, invades Albania, and recovers the lands that Manfred has taken from him.source
  • 1266The Battle of Benevento occurs between the Guelph and Ghibelline factions. The Guelph faction wins a decisive victory, leading to the death of the King of Sicily, Manfred, and the end of Hohenstaufen rule over the Kingdom.source
  • 1305In Spain, King James II of Aragon and King Ferdinand IV of Castile have a summit at the Monastery of Santa María de Huerta in Castile. Attending also from Castile are Ferdinand's uncle, Prince John; Juan Núñez II de Lara of the House of Lara; Ferdinand's cousin Juan Manuel; and Prince Afonso of Portugal.source
  • 1347The Maona of Chios and Phocaea is formed to manage the overseas possessions of the Republic of Genoa.source
  • 1406The Scottish Parliament issues a proclamation that during meetings of the body "a lighted lantern is to be hung outsideeach house every night in the high streets and lanes."source
  • 1410A papal bull is issued from Avignon by the Antipope Benedict XIII for Joan Gilabert Jofré to create the Hospital dels Ignoscents, the world's first hospital for the treatment of mental illness.source
  • 1414The speech given by French theologian Jean Petit of the "Council of Faith", including nine propositions drawn from the speech, is publicly burned by order of the inquisitor, Gerard de Montaigu, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Paris.source
  • 1440Ibrahim II becomes the Bey of Candar, a monarchy on the Black Sea that encompasses 10 modern-day Turkish provinces, upon the death of his father, Mubariz al-Din Isfendiyar, in the capital, Sinop.source
  • 1443The Spanish monarch, King Alfonso V of Aragon, makes a triumphant entrance into the city of Naples in order to assume the throne of the Kingdom of Naples.source
  • 1450Francesco Sforza enters Milan after a siege, becoming Duke of the city-state, and founding a dynasty that will rule Milan for a century.source
  • 1487At the insistence of Cardinal Rodrigo de Borja Pope Innocent VIII, authorizes a Christian crusade and against the Muslim Moors, to start on September 1 and to be funded for one year.source
  • 1548The Ottoman Navy, led by Admiral Ahmed Muhiddin Piri (commonly known as Piri Reis), recaptures Aden.source
  • 1555The Muscovy Company is chartered in England to trade with the Tsardom of Russia and Richard Chancellor negotiates with the Tsar.source
  • 1569Pope Pius V issues a papal bull expelling all Jews from Italian and French territories.source
  • 1589Valkendorfs Kollegium is founded in Copenhagen, Denmark.source
  • 1606Sailing on the Dutch ship Duyfken, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon and the crew make the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European, reaching the Cape York Peninsula, at the Pennefather River near what becomes Weipa, Queensland. The Duyfken follows by exploring the western coast.source
  • 1608After being held captive in Morocco for more than 13 years, popular professor Malian Ahmad Baba is able to return to Timbuktu on 10 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 1016 A.H.source
  • 1612Massacre in Nya Lödös, 300 Norwegian soldiers are massacred inside a church in Nya Lödöse, Sweden.source
  • 1612Massacre in Nya Lödöse, 300 Norwegian soldiers are massacred inside a church in Nya Lödöse.source
  • 1616Astronomer Galileo Galilei appears before Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino and "warned of the error of the Copernican opinion taught by him", and enjoined by the Catholic Church against any attempt to hold, teach or defend the position of Copernicus that the Sun is stationary rather than revolving around the Earth "in any way whatsoever, verbally or in writing."source
  • 1618Osman II deposes his uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman sultan (until 1622).source
  • 1636Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as King Alvaro VI of Kongo, in the area now occupied by the African nation of Angola, and rules until his death on February 22, 1641.source
  • 1650Jacob van Kittensteyn succeeds Joan Maetsuycker as the Dutch Governor of Zeylan (now the nation of Sri Lanka).source
  • 1654Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, placed under arrest in Brussels.source
  • 1656A rebellion of Turkish soldiers, leading to the "Çınar incident", takes place after a palace guard for Ottoman Sultan Mehmet IV turns away a representative group who had come for payment for their services during the war in Crete. The rebellion ends with the mass killing 30 men identified by the rebels as being responsible for the non-payment.source
  • 1658After the signing of the treaty, the Danish king hosts a peace banquet (Fredstaffelet) at Frederiksborg Castle.source
  • 1658The negotiations are finalized with the signing of the Treaty of Roskilde in Roskilde. It cedes Scania, Halland, Blekinge and Bornholm as well as two provinces in Norway to Sweden. Even after the treaty enters into force, the Swedish forces continue their campaign.source
  • 1658The peace between Sweden and Denmark is concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark is forced to cede significant territory.source
  • 1660The Rump Parliament, under pressure from General Monck, votes to call back all of the surviving members of the group of 231 MPs who had been removed from the House of Commons in 1648 so that the Long Parliament can be reassembled long enough for a full Parliament to approve elections for a new legislative body.source
  • 1664Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy, appointed by King Louis XIV of France as Lieutenant Général of the Americas, departs from the port of La Rochelle with 1,200 men and seven ships to expand France's property in the Caribbean Sea and in South America.source
  • 1677On the Indonesian island of Java, Amangkurat II of the Mataram Sultanate agrees to bring his kingdom under the protection of the Dutch East India Company to drive out rebels.source
  • 1677The first arrests are made in the case that will develop into the "Affair of the Poisons" in France, as Magdelaine de La Grange and her accused accomplice, Father Nail, are detained on suspicion of poisoning her lover, a Messr. Faurie. While in prison in the Bastille and awaiting trial Mademoiselle La Grange writes letters accusing other persons of carrying out murders by poison as well.source
  • 1694Silvestro Valier is elected as the new Doge of Venice to replace the late Francesco Morosinisource
  • 1697Conquistador Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi and 114 soldiers arrive at Lake Petén Itzá in what is now Guatemala and begin the Spanish conquest of Guatemala with an attack on the capital of the Itza people there before moving northward to the Yucatan peninsula.source
  • 1705Twelfth siege of Gibraltar: A French Navy fleet of 18 warships, commanded by Admiral Desjean, the Baron de Pointis arrives in the Bay of Gibraltar to aid the French and Spanish attempt to retake Gibraltar from England.source
  • 1705A French Navy fleet of 18 warships, commanded by Admiral Desjean, the Baron de Pointis arrives in the Bay of Gibraltar to aid the French and Spanish attempt to retake Gibraltar from Britainsource
  • 1708HMS Falmouth, a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built at Woolwich Dockyard for the British Royal Navy, is launched.source
  • 1708HMS Falmouth, a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built at Woolwich Dockyard for the Royal Navy, is launched.source
  • 1717February 26–March 6 – What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a series of blizzards that bury the region.source
  • 1727The beginning of siege of Halidzor Fortress.source
  • 1730February 26 (February 15 O.S.) – Anna of Russia (Anna Ioannovna) becomes reigning Empress of Russia following the death of her cousin Emperor Peter II.source
  • 1744a house in Pill Lane, Dublin, collapses while Roman Catholic mass is being held there, killing the priest and nine of the congregation.source
  • 1760February 21–26 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland – A force of French troops, under the command of privateer François Thurot, captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in the naval Battle of Bishops Court in the Irish Sea on February 28.source
  • 1775The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.source
  • 1783The United States Continental Army's Corps of Engineers is disbanded.source
  • 1794The first Christiansborg Palace is destroyed in a fire.source
  • 1797Bank Restriction Act removes the requirement for the Bank of England (the national bank of Great Britain) to convert banknotes into gold – Restriction period lasts until 1821. The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes (pound notes discontinued March 11, 1988).source
  • 1797start of "restriction period" during which, by Government order, Bank of England notes are inconvertible to gold. The Bank issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes (the former denomination remains in issue until 11 March 1988).source
  • 1815Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.source
  • 1832Frédéric Chopin made his highly anticipated Paris debut on at the Salle Pleyel. The concert featured his own Piano Concerto in E Minor and Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano', and was attended by the city's musical and cultural elite, including Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. The concert would catapult him as one of the most popular composers in not only Paris but all of Europe.source
  • 1846February 20–March 3 – Kraków uprising: Polish nationalists stage an uprising in the Free City of Kraków; it is suppressed by forces of the Austrian Empire, supported by peasants.source
  • 1849Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool.source
  • 1852The British troopship, HMS Birkenhead is wrecked near Gansbaai, Western Capesource
  • 1852the Birkenhead founders off the coast of South Africa. The soldiers stand to attention while women and children are placed in the lifeboats.source
  • 1854Students of the University of Coimbra and locals clash in riots during Carnival.source
  • 1856Teis Lundegaard, farmer, shipowner, politician and representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly (born 1774)source
  • 1860The Wiyot Massacre takes place at Tuluwat Island, Humboldt Bay in northern California.source
  • 1863Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law.source
  • 1866The Calaveras Skull is discovered in California. Purported to be evidence of humans in North America during the Pliocene epoch, it turns out to be a hoax.source
  • 1869Mahbub Ali Khan, 2½, begins a 42-year reign as Nizam of Hyderabad.source
  • 1870The German Commerzbank is founded in Hamburg.source
  • 1870German company Commerzbank is founded in Hamburg.source
  • 1870In New York City, the first pneumatic subway, Beach Pneumatic Transit, is opened.source
  • 1870Wyatt Outlaw, the first African American town commissioner in Graham, North Carolina, is lynched by mob of Ku Klux Klan on Alamance County courthouse square.source
  • 1872The brig Maria is wrecked when it strikes a reef near Cardwell off the coast of Queensland, killing 39 people.source
  • 1876The Japanese force the Korean government to sign the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 (having brought a fleet to Incheon, the port of modern-day Seoul), opening three ports to Japanese trade and forcing Korea's Joseon dynasty to cease considering itself a tributary of China. On China's urging, Korea also signs treaties with the European powers, in an effort to counterbalance Japan.source
  • 1885The Berlin Conference ends and the Scramble for Africa begins.source
  • 1885The final act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonization and trade, in the "scramble for Africa".source
  • 1885The final act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonization and trade in Africa.source
  • 1885A speed skating duel at Frognerkilen between Axel Paulsen and Renke van der Zee was attended by between 20,000 and 30,000 spectators.source
  • 1887At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets, in a Test innings.source
  • 1889Akademisk Boldklub is founded.source
  • 1897The Sigma Pi fraternity is founded in Vincennes, Indiana.source
  • 1899Kálmán Széll replaces Dezső Bánffy as Prime Minister of Hungary.source
  • 1901The Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa, as Boers continue to demand autonomy.source
  • 1901The Middelburg peace conference fails as Boers continue to demand autonomy.source
  • 1903The ocean liner SS Columbus was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.source
  • 1904The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, is almost entirely destroyed by fire after a gas jet ignites the newly varnished ceiling.source
  • 1905Russia sustains a severe defeat in Manchuria at Tsen-ho-Cheng.source
  • 1914The ocean liner that will become HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.source
  • 1918Otto Jensen, bishop, politician and Minister (born 1856)source
  • 1919Grand Canyon National Park: An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.source
  • 1919The first official meeting of the Zionist General Council.source
  • 1922Leser v. Garnett: The Supreme Court of the United States rebuffs a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote on the same terms as men.source
  • 1924The trial of Adolf Hitler for the Beer Hall Putsch begins and will last until 1 April.source
  • 1925End of the Regie Company. An important step in the economicssource
  • 1929Grand Teton National Park is established by the United States Congress.source
  • 1935In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler orders reinstatement of the air force, the Luftwaffe, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.source
  • 1935Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar to detect aircraft, at Daventry in the UK.source
  • 1942The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles; How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture.source
  • 1944Sue S. Dauser becomes the first woman appointed to the substantive rank of captain, in the United States Navy Nurse Corps.source
  • 1949The Revolutionary Communist Party of India stages attacks at Dum Dum.source
  • 1952Vincent Massey is sworn in, becoming the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.source
  • 195321 April 1953 - Battle of Chatkol during the Korean War. Luxembourg soldiers fought against 55 consecutive nights of Chinese assaults.source
  • 1954Yuli Tamir, Israeli academic and former politician.source
  • 1960Alitalia Flight 618: A Douglas DC 7 en route to New York crashes into a cemetery at Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.source
  • 1961Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.source
  • 1962The Irish Republican Army officially calls off its Border Campaign.source
  • 1963According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a passenger ship Tokiwa Maru sank by collision with logistic ship Richmond Maru off Kobe Port, Hyogo Prefecture, total 47 passengers and crew were fatalities.source
  • 1965Fernand Georges is appointed to the Council of State.source
  • 1967A Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Eastern Kazakhstan.source
  • 1971Secretary General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the March equinox (March 21) as Earth Day.source
  • 1972February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.source
  • 1972Yosef Sapir (born 1902), Israeli politician and Knesset member.source
  • 1972Luna 20 comes back to Earth with 55 g of lunar soil.source
  • 1974Cambodian Civil War – Battle of Kampot: The Khmer Rouge began a military operation in Kampot after taking several Lon Nol territories fallen to Angkar like the previous victories of Operation Chenla II.source
  • 1974Mungo Man, a human skeleton estimated to be 40,000 years old, uncovered at Lake Mungosource
  • 1975Sahitya Akademi recognizes Konkani language.source
  • 1975Moritz Suter, former pilot of Swissair, founds Business Flyers Basel, which will later become Crossairsource
  • 1976The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.source
  • 1979Chiang Kai-shek International Airport located in Taoyuan County (now is Taoyuan County) officially opened.source
  • 1979The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.source
  • 1979A total solar eclipse, the last visible from the continental United States until 2017, arcs over northwestern conterminous US and central Canada ending in Greenland. A partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America including the eastern half of Alaska and the western half of the UK.source
  • 1981A U.S. Air Force C-130 plane crashes into the South China Sea, near Subic Bay Naval Base, killing 23 of 24 American, Philippine, Australian, and New Zealand military personnel aboard.source
  • 1992February 25–26 – 613 Azerbaijani civilians are massacred in Khojaly.source
  • 1993World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.source
  • 1995The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.source
  • 1998Oprah is cleared of slander in an Amarillo court after a highly publicized court battle with Texas beef moguls.source
  • 2000February 23–March 7 – Mayon volcano in Albay erupts, with the most violent occurred, February 28 – March 1; its status is raised to the highest, Alert Level 5, on February 24 due to its hazardous explosions with pyroclastic and lahar flows that affected parts of the province, with several thousands evacuated even outside identified danger zones.source
  • 2002Former President Joseph Estrada admits signing the ₱500 million Jose Velarde bank account in Equitable-PCI Bank.source
  • 2003The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups rise up against the Sudanese government.source
  • 2003The first SARS patient in Vietnam hospitalized.source
  • 2006The Dubai Ports World controversy continues with Miami-based Eller & Company trying to obtain an injunction in the UK High Court to prevent the sale of P&O to Dubai Ports World.source
  • 2007The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.source
  • 2007Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney makes surprise visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan to encourage President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai to increase border security between the two countries and to take further action against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.source
  • 2009Former Serbian president Milan Milutinović is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.source
  • 2011The Nintendo 3DS has its first release in Japan, following later releases in Europe on March 25, North America on March 27, and Australia on March 31.source
  • 2012Seventeen-year-old African-American student Trayvon Martin is shot to death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in an altercation in Sanford, Florida.source
  • 2014An Egyptian court sentences 26 people to death in absentia for plotting attacks on ships passing through the Suez Canal.source
  • 20162016 Air Kasthamandap crashsource
  • 2017An annular solar eclipse is visible from Pacific, Chile, Argentina, Atlantic, Africa. It is the 29th eclipse of the 140th saros cycle (descending node), which started with a partial solar eclipse visible in the Southern Hemisphere on April 16, 1512, and will conclude with another partial solar eclipse visible in the Northern Hemisphere on June 1, 2774.source
  • 2018an earthquake of 7.5 moment magnitude struck in Hela Province, resulting in at least 67 people killed and a further 500 injured.source
  • 2019February 26–27 – The Indian Air Force launches airstrikes on purported militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan. It precedes a series of events that lead to the 2019 India–Pakistan standoff.source
  • 201926 February–4 July – 2019 Benin protestssource
  • 2020First confirmed case of COVID-19.source
  • 2021An NGO vice-president met with 70 members of the Twa and Bantu in Nyunzu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to ensure lasting peace in the Nyunzu Territory.source
  • 2021Six gunmen open fire on a World Food Programme convoy in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio, a carabiniere and their driver.source
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: The EU, US, and their allies commit to removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system, as well as imposing measures on the Russian Central Bank and further restrictions on Russian elites. These and other sanctions fuel a financial crisis in Russia.source
  • 2025The South Korean train manufacturing firm Hyundai Rotem wins a US$1.53 billion contract to supply advanced trains to the Moroccan national railway operator ONCF.source
  • 2025Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport is closed after the Mauritius Meteorological Services issues a category 3 cyclone warning for Tropical Storm Garance.source

Births

  • 1361Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (died 1419)source
  • 1416Christopher of Bavaria (died 1448)source
  • 1436Imagawa Yoshitada, 9th head of the Imagawa clan in Japan (died 1476)source
  • 1514Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (died 1573)source
  • 1564February 26 (baptized) – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (died 1593)source
  • 1586Niccolò Cabeo, Italian Jesuit writer, theologian (died 1657)source
  • 1619Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (died 1694)source
  • 1629Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Scottish peer (died 1685)source
  • 1664Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Swiss mathematician (died 1753)source
  • 1671Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (died 1713)source
  • 1672Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (died 1757)source
  • 1715Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (died 1771)source
  • 1729Anders Chydenius, Finnish economist, liberal politician and Lutheran priest (died 1803)source
  • 1786François Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician (died 1853)source
  • 1794Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, politician (died 1874)source
  • 1802Victor Hugo, French author (died 1885)source
  • 1805Malek Jahan Khanom, Regent of Persia, Qajar queen mother and princess.source
  • 1808Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator and sculptor (died 1879)source
  • 1846William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman, later showman (died 1917)source
  • 1852John Harvey Kellogg, American Adventist doctor and health reformer (died 1943)source
  • 1861King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (died 1948)source
  • 1876Agustín Pedro Justo, president 1932-1938source
  • 1928Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (died 2014)source
  • 1932Johnny Cash, American country singer (died 2003)source
  • 1950Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealandsource
  • 1954Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 12th President of Turkeysource
  • 1973Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballersource
  • 1974Sébastien Loeb, French rally driversource

Deaths

  • 420Saint Porphyry, bishop of Gaza (Palestine)source
  • 943Muirchertach mac Néill, king of Ailech (Ireland)source
  • 1046Fujiwara no Sanesuke, Japanese nobleman (born 957)source
  • 1076February 26 or 27 – Godfrey the Hunchback, duke of Lower Lorrainesource
  • 1146Geoffrey de Gorham, Norman scholarsource
  • 1154Roger II, king of Sicily (born 1095)source
  • 1154King Roger II dies at Palermo after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his fourth son William I ("the Bad"') as ruler of Sicily. William appoints Maio of Bari, a man of low birth, to chancellor and his adviser. He pursues his father's policy of strengthening authority over the towns and the Italian nobles, who rally around his cousin Robert III, count of Loritello, in Apulia and Calabria.source
  • 1266Manfred, King of Sicily, illegitimate son of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1232)source
  • 1266Manfred, King of Sicilysource
  • 1275Margaret of England, queen consort of Scotland (born 1240)source
  • 1289Przemko of Ścinawa, Polish nobleman and knightsource
  • 1324Dino Compagni, Italian politician and historiansource
  • 1349Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (born c.1260)source
  • 1360Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (born 1328)source
  • 1376The Böse Fasnacht, a riot in the Swiss city of Basel, breaks out during a tournament at a carnival and numerous people are killed, including several of the soldiers of the Duke of Austria, Leopold III. The city council arrests and executes 12 perpetrators, but Duke Leopold proceeds with placing the city under stricter control.source
  • 1462John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (born 1408)source
  • 1474Eom Heung-do, local official of Joseon (born 1404)source
  • 1548Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (born 1514)source
  • 1556Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1544–1556) (born 1482)source
  • 1577King Eric XIV of Sweden (born 1533)source
  • 1603Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, spouse of Maximilian II (born 1528)source
  • 1608John Still, English Bishop of Bath and Wells, famed as a preacher (born c. 1543)source
  • 1608Thomas Craig, jurist and poet (born c.1538)source
  • 1611Antonio Possevino, Italian Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation, papal diplomat (born 1533)source
  • 1625Anna Vasa of Sweden, Polish and Swedish princess (born 1568)source
  • 1625Anna Vasa, Princess (born 1568)source
  • 1666Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Frondeur (born 1629)source
  • 1726Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (born 1662)source
  • 1745Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, English nobleman (born 1707)source
  • 1770Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer, violinist (born 1692)source
  • 1802Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (born 1718)source
  • 1811Mateo de Toro Zambrano (born 1727)source
  • 1813Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (born 1746)source
  • 1821Joseph de Maistre, French-Savoyard philosopher (born 1753)source
  • 1883Miguel Ângelo Lupi, painter (born 1826)source
  • 1887Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman doctor (born 1865)source
  • 1901Chi-hsui and Hsu-cheng-yu, Boxer Rebellion leaders, are executed in Peking.source
  • 1928Juan Vázquez de Mella, Spanish scholar, politician (born 1861)source
  • 1930Ahmet Rıza (born in 1858), politiciansource
  • 1936February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, Niniroku Jiken): The Imperial Way Faction engineers a failed coup against the Japanese government; some politicians are killed.source
  • 1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian pro-independence activist, Hindu nationalist (born 1883)source
  • 2004The President of the Republic of Macedonia Boris Trajkovski died in an airplane accident in Bosnia and Herzegovina.source