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On November 26, 783: The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her nephew from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.

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Notable deaths

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People

Born on November 26

Pau Víctor 2001– Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Lamecha Girma 2000– Ethiopian athlete (born 2000)
Jaycee Horn 1999– American football player (born 1999)
Olivia O'Brien 1999– American singer
Jacob Shaffelburg 1999– Canadian soccer player (born 1999)
Shivam Mavi 1998– Indian cricketer (born 1998)
Aubrey Joseph 1997– American actor (born 1997)
Jennie Wåhlin 1997– Swedish curler
Aaron Wan-Bissaka 1997– DR Congolese footballer (born 1997)
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Malik Beasley 1996– American basketball player (born 1996)
Brandon Carlo 1996– American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Louane 1996– French actress and singer
Marc Roca 1996– Spanish footballer (born 1996)
James Guy 1995– British swimmer (born 1995) Anuel AA 1992– Puerto Rican rapper and singer (born 1992)
Manolo Gabbiadini 1991– Italian footballer
Corey Knebel 1991– American baseball player (born 1991)
Avery Bradley 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)

People

Died on November 26

Jim Abrahams American film director and writer (1944–2024)
Vikram Gokhale Indian actor (1945–2022)
Stephen Sondheim American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)
Stephen Hillenburg American animator and educator (1961–2018)
Fritz Weaver American actor (1926–2016)
Amir Aczel Israeli-born American lecturer (1950–2015)
Guy Lewis American basketball player and coach (1922–2015)
Mary Hinkson American dancer
Gilles Tremblay Canadian ice hockey player
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Peter Underwood British parapsychologist (1923–2014)
Arik Einstein Israeli musical artist
Jane Kean American actress (1923–2013)
Saul Leiter American photographer and painter (1923–2013)
Tony Musante American actor (1936–2013)
Celso Advento Castillo Filipino film director and screenwriter
Peter Marsh Australian table tennis player (born 1948)
Joseph Murray American plastic surgeon (1919–2012)
M. C. Nambudiripad Indian popular science writer and translator

Timeline

Every November 26 on record

  1. 783 The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her nephew from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.

    Kingdom in the Northern Iberian Peninsula (718–924)

    The Kingdom of Asturias was a medieval monarchy in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the nobleman Pelagius. It was the first Christian political entity to be established in the Iberian Peninsula after the Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711–720s. In the summer of 722, Pelagius defeated an Umayyad army at the Battle of Covadonga, in what is retroactively regarded as the beginning of the Christian Reconquista.

  2. 1161 Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.

    1161 battle during the Jin-Song wars

    The Battle of Caishi was a major naval engagement of the Jin–Song Wars of China that took place on November 26–27, 1161. It ended with a decisive Song victory, aided by their use of gunpowder weapons.

  3. 1346 Having been elected German king at Rhens on 11 July 1346, Charles IV is crowned King of Germany by bishop Walram of Cologne in Bonn.

    This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany, from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918:

  4. 1476 Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

    15th-century ruler of Wallachia

    Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He is regarded as a Christian hero in Romania due to his opposition to the Ottoman Empire and he is considered an important ruler in Wallachian history.

  5. 1778 In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

    Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean

    The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands by Europeans, the present name for the archipelago is derived from the name of its largest island, Hawaiʻi.

  6. 1789 A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
  7. 1805 Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
  8. 1812 The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
  9. 1852 An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies.
  10. 1863 United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.
  11. 1865 Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
  12. 1914 HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men while at anchor near Sheerness.
  13. 1917 The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  14. 1917 The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
  15. 1918 The Montenegrin Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
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  1. 1920 Ukrainian War of Independence: The Red Army launches a surprise attack against the Makhnovshchina.
  2. 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
  3. 1922 The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
  4. 1924 The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy.
  5. 1939 Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
  6. 1941 World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii.
  7. 1942 World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
  8. 1942 Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.
  9. 1942 A riot involving infantrymen, military police, and local law enforcement officers occurs in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, leading to three deaths.
  10. 1943 World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
  11. 1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in New Cross, London, killing 168 people.
  12. 1944 World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
  13. 1949 The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
  14. 1950 Korean War: Communist Chinese troops launch a massive counterattack (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir) against United Nations and South Korean forces.
  15. 1965 France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.

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