Editing July 26 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[657]] &ndash; [[First Fitna]]: In the [[Battle of Siffin]], troops led by [[Ali|Ali ibn Abu Talib]] clash with those led by [[Muawiyah I]].
* [[811]] &ndash; [[Battle of Pliska]]: [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]] [[Nikephoros I]] is killed and his heir [[Staurakios]] is seriously wounded.<ref>George Ostrogorsky, ''History of the Byzantine State'' (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1957), p.&nbsp;174</ref>
* [[920]] &ndash; Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from [[Navarre]] and [[León, Spain|Léon]] against the Muslims at the [[Battle of Valdejunquera]].
*[[1309]] &ndash; [[Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor|The Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII]] is recognized [[King of the Romans]] by [[Pope Clement V]].
*[[1509]] &ndash; The Emperor [[Krishnadevaraya]] ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]].
*[[1529]] &ndash; [[Francisco Pizarro González]], Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
*[[1579]] &ndash; [[Francis Drake]], the English explorer, discovers a "fair and good" bay on the coast of the [[Pacific Northwest]] (probably [[Oregon]] or [[Washington (state)|Washington]]).<ref>{{cite book|first=Melissa|last=Darby|title=Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay|publisher=University of Utah Press|year=2019|isbn=978-1-60-781725-3}}</ref> 
*[[1581]] &ndash; [[Act of Abjuration|Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration)]]: The northern [[Low Countries]] declare their independence from the Spanish king, [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]].

===1601–1900===
*[[1703]] &ndash; During the ''[[Bavarian Rummel]]'' the rural population of [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]] drove the [[History of Bavaria#Absolutism|Bavarian]] Prince-Elector [[Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria|Maximilian II Emanuel]] out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the [[Bavarian Army]], which was allied with [[History of France#Louis XIV (1643–1715)|France]], from marching as planned on [[Vienna]] during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
*[[1745]] &ndash; The first recorded [[History of women's cricket|women's cricket]] match takes place near [[Guildford]], England.
*[[1758]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: The [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]] ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]].
*[[1775]] &ndash; The office that would later become the [[United States Post Office Department]] is established by the [[Second Continental Congress]]. [[Benjamin Franklin]] of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
*[[1778]] &ndash; The [[Emigration of Christians from the Crimea (1778)|Emigration of Christians from the Crimea in 1778]] begins.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beketov |first=V. M. |title=Регіональне і загальне в історії: Тези міжнародної наукової конференції, присвяченої 140-річчю від дня народження Д.І.Яворницького та 90-літтю XIII Археологічного з'їзду (9 листопада 1995 р.). |publisher=[[Institute of History of Ukraine]] |year=1995 |isbn=5-7707-8671-X |location=Dnipro |pages=262–264 |language=uk |trans-title=Regional and general in history: Abstracts from the international scientific conference dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of D.I. Yavornytsky and the 90th anniversary of the XIII Archaeological Congress (9 November 1995) |contribution=З історії переселення греків з Криму на Маріупольщину: Митрополит Ігнатій (Газадінов) |access-date=13 March 2023 |contribution-url=http://new.museum.dp.ua/uk/article0564.html |via=[[Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipropetrovsk]] |trans-contribution=From the history of the relocation of the Greeks from the Crimea to the Mariupol region: Metropolitan Ignatius (Gazadinov) |contributor-last=Kozina |contributor-first=N. I. |archive-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313142602/http://new.museum.dp.ua/uk/article0564.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; New York ratifies the [[United States Constitution]] and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
*[[1803]] &ndash; The [[Surrey Iron Railway]], arguably the world's first public [[Rail transport|railway]], opens in south London, United Kingdom.
*[[1814]] &ndash; The [[Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)|Swedish–Norwegian War]] begins.
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[José de San Martín]] arrives in [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]], to [[Guayaquil Conference|meet]] with [[Simón Bolívar]].
*  1822   &ndash; First day of the three-day [[Battle of Dervenakia]], between the [[Ottoman Empire]] force led by [[Mahmud Dramali Pasha]] and the [[Greek War of Independence|Greek Revolutionary]] force led by [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]].
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Liberia]] declares its independence from the [[United States]]. [[France]] and [[the United Kingdom]] are the first to recognize the new nation.
*[[1848]] &ndash; The [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] is established by [[Nelson Dewey]], first [[Governor of Wisconsin]].<ref name="uwtimeline">{{cite web |title=Historical Timeline |url=http://www.wisc.edu/about/historical-timeline/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220226/http://www.wisc.edu/about/historical-timeline/ |archive-date=September 14, 2017 |access-date=September 14, 2017 |website=University of Wisconsin-Madison}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[George B. McClellan]] assumes command of the [[Army of the Potomac]] following a disastrous [[Union Army|Union]] defeat at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[Morgan's Raid]] ends; At [[Salineville, Ohio]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] cavalry leader [[John Hunt Morgan]] and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
*[[1882]] &ndash; Premiere of [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Parsifal]]'' at [[Bayreuth]].
*  1882   &ndash; The Republic of [[Stellaland]] is founded in Southern Africa.
*[[1887]] &ndash; Publication of the ''[[Unua Libro]]'', founding the Esperanto movement.
*[[1890]] &ndash; In [[Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires, Argentina]] the [[Revolution of the Park|Revolución del Parque]] takes place, forcing President [[Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman]]'s resignation.
*[[1891]] &ndash; France annexes [[Tahiti]].
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Dadabhai Naoroji]] is elected as the first Indian [[British House of Commons|Member of Parliament]] in Britain.<ref>{{citation |date=26 Jul 2013 |title=From the archive, 26 July 1892: Britain's first Asian MP elected |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jul/26/election-naoroji-finsbury-1892 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Afghan War]]: The [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[fakir]] [[Saidullah]] leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a [[Siege of Malakand|siege of the British garrison]] in the [[Malakand Agency]] of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North West Frontier Province]] of India.
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Ulises Heureaux]], the 27th [[President of the Dominican Republic]], is assassinated.

===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[United States Attorney General]] [[Charles Joseph Bonaparte]] issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]).
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Emmy Noether]]'s paper, which became known as [[Noether's theorem]] was presented at [[Göttingen]], Germany, from which  [[conservation law]]s are deduced for symmetries of [[angular momentum]], [[Momentum|linear momentum]], and [[energy]].
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] decide to intervene in the war in support for [[Francisco Franco]] and the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist faction]].
*  1936   &ndash; King [[Edward VIII]], in one of his few official duties before he [[Edward VIII abdication crisis|abdicates]] the throne, officially unveils the [[Canadian National Vimy Memorial]].
*[[1937]] &ndash; Spanish Civil War: End of the [[Battle of Brunete]] with the Nationalist victory.
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Battle of Grand Harbour]], British forces on [[Malta]] destroy an attack by the Italian [[Decima Flottiglia MAS]]. Fort [[St Elmo Bridge]] covering the harbour is demolished in the process.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Caruana |first1=J |title=Decima Flotilla Decimated |journal=Warship International |date=1991 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=178–186 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44892205 |publisher=International Naval Research Organization|jstor=44892205 }}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of [[French Indochina]], the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and [[ABCD line|cut off oil shipments]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Red Army]] enters [[Lviv]], a major city in western [[Ukraine]], capturing it from the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. Only 300 [[Jews]] survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
*[[1945]] &ndash; The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] wins the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election of July 5]] by a landslide, removing [[Winston Churchill]] from power.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: The [[Potsdam Declaration]] is signed in [[Potsdam]], Germany.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: {{HMS|Vestal|J215|6}} is the last British [[Royal Navy]] ship to be sunk in the war.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: The {{USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6}} arrives at [[Tinian]] with components and [[enriched uranium]] for the [[Little Boy]] nuclear bomb.
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Aloha Airlines]] begins service from [[Honolulu International Airport]].
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs the [[National Security Act of 1947]] into [[Law of the United States|United States law]] creating the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[United States Department of Defense]], [[United States Air Force]], [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], and the [[United States National Security Council]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs [[Executive Order 9981]], desegregating the military of the United States.
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Walt Disney]]'s 13th [[Animation|animated film]], ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
*[[1952]] &ndash; King [[Farouk of Egypt]] abdicates in favor of his son [[Fuad II of Egypt|Fuad]].
*[[1953]] &ndash; Cold War: [[Fidel Castro]] leads an unsuccessful attack on the [[Moncada Barracks]], thus beginning the [[Cuban Revolution]]. The movement took the name of the date: [[26th of July Movement]]
*  1953   &ndash; [[Arizona]] Governor [[John Howard Pyle]] orders an anti-[[polygamy]] law enforcement crackdown on residents of [[Colorado City, Arizona|Short Creek, Arizona]], which becomes known as the [[Short Creek raid]].
*  1953   &ndash; Soldiers from the [[2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the [[Battle of the Samichon River]], just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the [[Korean War]].
*[[1956]] &ndash; Following the [[World Bank]]'s refusal to fund building the [[Aswan Dam]], [[Egypt]]ian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] nationalizes the [[Suez Canal]], [[Suez crisis|sparking international condemnation]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], dictator of [[Guatemala]], is assassinated.
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Explorer program]]: ''[[Explorer 4]]'' is launched.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Syncom#Syncom 2|Syncom 2]], the world's first [[geosynchronous satellite]], is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
*  1963   &ndash; An [[1963 Skopje earthquake|earthquake]] in [[Skopje]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] (present-day [[North Macedonia]]) leaves 1,100 dead.
*  1963   &ndash; The [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] votes to admit [[Japan]].
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: [[South Vietnam]]ese opposition leader [[Trương Đình Dzu]] is sentenced to five years [[Penal labour#Prison labour|hard labor]] for advocating the formation of a [[coalition government]] as a way to move toward an end to the war.
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Apollo program]]: Launch of [[Apollo 15]] on the first Apollo "[[List of Apollo missions#Alphabetical mission types|J-Mission]]", and first use of a [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]].
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Prime Minister of Greece|Greek Prime Minister]] [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] forms the country's first civil government after [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|seven years of military rule]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; The National Assembly of [[Quebec]] imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
*[[1989]] &ndash; A federal [[grand jury]] indicts [[Cornell University]] student [[Robert Tappan Morris|Robert T. Morris, Jr.]] for releasing the [[Morris worm]], thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 [[Computer Fraud and Abuse Act]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; The [[Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990]] is signed into law by President [[George H. W. Bush]].
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Asiana Airlines Flight 733]] crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at [[Mokpo Airport]], [[South Korea]]. Sixty-eight of the 116 people on board are killed.
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Kargil War|Kargil conflict]] officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-114]] Mission: Launch of [[Space Shuttle Discovery|''Discovery'']], [[NASA]]'s first scheduled flight mission after the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|''Columbia'' Disaster]] in [[2003]].
*  2005   &ndash; [[Mumbai]], India receives [[Maharashtra floods of 2005|99.5cm of rain]] (39.17&nbsp;inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
*[[2008]] &ndash; Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the [[2008 Ahmedabad bombings|Ahmedabad bombings in India]].
*[[2009]] &ndash; The militant [[Nigeria]]n [[Islamism|Islamist]] group [[Boko Haram]] attacks a police station in [[Bauchi (city)|Bauchi]], leading to reprisals by the [[Nigeria Police Force]] and [[2009 Boko Haram Uprising|four days of violence]] across multiple cities.
*[[2011]] &ndash; A [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] [[2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 crash|crashes]] near [[Guelmim Airport]] in [[Guelmim]], [[Morocco]]. All 80 people on board are killed.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed C-130H Hercules CNA-OQ Goulimime Airport (GLN)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20110726-0|access-date=2021-07-24|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; The [[Sagamihara stabbings]] occur in [[Kanagawa Prefecture]] in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
*  2016   &ndash; [[Hillary Clinton]] becomes the first female nominee for [[President of the United States]] by a major political party at the [[2016 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]].
*  2016   &ndash; [[Solar Impulse 2]] becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the [[Earth]].
*  [[2024]] - Olympic swimmer [[Ana Carolina Vieira (swimmer)|Ana Carolina Vieira]] has been kicked out of the [[2024 Summer Olympics]] in Paris due to sneaking out of the Olympic Village.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-29 |title=Swimmer kicked out of Olympics and sent home after 'inappropriate' act with boyfriend |url=https://au.sports.yahoo.com/swimmer-kicked-out-of-olympics-and-sent-home-after-inappropriate-act-with-boyfriend-232845792.html |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Yahoo Sports |language=en-AU}}</ref>