26 May in History

451 A.D.--The Battle of Avraryr.  The Armenians are defeated by the Sassanid (Persian) Empire, but are allowed to continue practicing Christianity openly.  The Sassanids were Zoroastrian.

1135--Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon is crowned Imperator totius Hispaniae in the cathedral of Leon.

1538--Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city.  They remove to the city of Strasbourg for the next three years.

1637--The Pequot War.  Massachusetts and the Mohegans under captain John Mason attack the Pequots in Connecticutt and kill about 500 of the Pequot.

1647--Alse Young is the first person convicted of withcraft in the North American colonies and is hanged in Hartford, Connecticutt.

1736--The Battle of Ackia.  British soldiers and Chickaswa warriors repel a French and Choctaw attack on the village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi.  The French were attempting to link Acadia and Lousiana.

1770--The Orlov Revolt.  An attempt by the Greeks to revolt against the Ottoman Turks ends in disaster.

1830--The Indian Removal Act is passed by Congress, and is signed by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

1864--Montana is organized as a territory.

1865--General Edmund Kirby Smith becomes the last Confederate general to surrender to Union forces at Galveston, Texas.

1868--President Andrew Johnson's Impeachment trial ends in a vote of not guilty (by one vote).

1896--Nicholas II Romanov is crowned Czar of All the Russias.

1918--Armenian forces defeat the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Sardarapat.

1918--The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.

1938--The House Un-American Activities Committee has its first session.

1940--The Battle of Dunkirk.  The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and French forces begins.

1969--Apollo 10 returns to earth.

1972--The United States and the Soviet Union sign the ABM Treaty.

1986--The European Community adopts a flag.