Editing February 26 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1606]] &ndash; The [[Janszoon voyage of 1605–06]] becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea.<ref>{{cite book|author=Norman Davies|title=Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18IsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP330|date=7 December 2017|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-1-84614-832-3|pages=330|access-date=23 December 2019|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124208/https://books.google.com/books?id=18IsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP330|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1616]] &ndash; [[Galileo affair#Inquisition and first judgment, 1616|Galileo Galilei is formally banned]] by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending [[Heliocentrism|the view that the earth orbits the sun]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Atle Naess|title=Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9fWI6vfgjo8C&pg=PA150|date=23 February 2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-27054-6|pages=150|access-date=23 December 2019|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124121/https://books.google.com/books?id=9fWI6vfgjo8C&pg=PA150|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; The [[British East India Company]] [[Factory (trading post)|factory]] on [[Balambangan Island]] is destroyed by [[Piracy in the Sulu Sea|Moro pirates]].<ref>{{cite book | last =Warren| first =James Francis | title =The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State| year =1981| publisher =NUS Press| location=Singapore| page=36 }}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; The first [[Christiansborg Palace (1st)|Christiansborg Palace]] in [[Copenhagen]] burns down.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nielsen|first=Marjatta|chapter=An Introduction to the Life and Work of Johannes Wiedewelt (1731-1802)|title=Johannes Wiedewelt: A Danish Artist in Search of the Past, Shaping the Future|editor-last1=Nielsen|editor-first1=Marjatta|editor-last2=Rathje|editor-first2=Annette|location=Copenhagen|publisher=Museum Tusculanum|date=2010|isbn=9788763507875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sv1yKyfVGrYC|pages=50, 52}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]] escapes from exile on the island of [[Elba]].<ref>{{cite book|last=MacKenzie|first=Norman Ian|title=The Escape From Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon, 1814-1815|location=Oxford, UK|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1982|isbn=9781844156047|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flR-AwAAQBAJ|pages=212–215}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; The [[Beach Pneumatic Transit]] in New York City, intended as a demonstration for a subway line, opens.<ref>{{Cite web|title=nycsubway.org: Beach Pneumatic Transit|url=https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit|access-date=2022-02-26|website=nycsubway.org|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108195627/https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] and [[Korean Empire|Korea]] sign the [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876|Treaty of Kangwha]], which grants Japanese citizens [[extraterritoriality]] rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a [[tributary state]] of [[Qing dynasty]] China.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pratt|first1=Keith|last2=Rutt|first2=Ricahrd|title=Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary|location=Richmond, Surrey, UK|publisher=Curzon Press|date=1999|isbn=9780700704637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tdcAgAAQBAJ|page=198}}</ref>