On this day 26th August in 1071 - Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks. 1278 - Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II 1303 - Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh. 1346 - Battle at Crécy-Englands longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle 1466 - A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered. 1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà. 1541 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary 1545 - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma 1549 - Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels 1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate 1634 - Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants 1641 - West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola 1648 - Peoples uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin 1652 - Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory Births 1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496) 1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583) 1596 - Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain) 1627 - Thomas Bullis, composer 1676 - Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5] 1687 - Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph) 1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755) Deaths 1278 - Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), killed in battle 1346 - Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, killed in battle 1346 - Charles II of Alençon, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1297) 1346 - Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, killed in the Battle of Crécy 1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury 1368 - Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64) 1486 - Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), 45 1518 - Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara 1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden 1572 - Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515) 1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal 1616 - Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), 66 1661 - Louis Couperin, composer, 1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. circa 1580) 1683 - Christoph Schultze, composer, 76
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