What is January 26?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[1340]] &ndash; King [[Edward III of England]] is declared King of [[France]]. * [[1500]] &ndash; [[Vicente Pinzon|Vicente Yáñez Pinzón]] becomes the first [[Europe]]an to discover [[Brazil]]. * [[1531]] &ndash; [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]] hit by an [[earthquake]]—thousands die. * [[1564]] &ndash; The [[Council of Trent]] issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a difference between [[Roman Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism]]. * [[1564]] &ndash; The [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] defeats the [[Tsar]]dom of [[Russia]] in the [[Battle of Ula]], during the [[Livonian War]]. * [[1699]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Carlowitz]] signed. * [[1700]] &ndash; The [[Richter magnitude scale|magnitude]] 9 [[Cascadia Earthquake]] took place off the coast of the [[United States|American]] Northwest, as evidenced by [[Japan]]ese records. * [[1736]] &ndash; [[Stanislaus I of Poland]] abdicates his throne. * [[1782]] &ndash; [[American War of Independence]]: The [[Navy|Naval]] [[Battle of Saint Kitts]] between British and French forces ends in British victory under [[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood]], though the French still manage to take over the island anyway. * [[1785]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Franklin]] writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the [[Bald eagle|eagle]] as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the [[Wild Turkey|turkey]]. * [[1788]] &ndash; The British [[First Fleet]], led by [[Arthur Phillip]], sail into [[Sydney Harbour]] to establish [[Sydney]], the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as [[Australia Day]]. * [[1802]] &ndash; The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] passes an act calling for a library to be established within the [[U.S. Capitol]]; eventually this becomes the [[Library of Congress]]. * [[1808]] &ndash; [[Rum Rebellion]], the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in [[Australia]]. * [[1837]] &ndash; [[Michigan]] is admitted as the 26th [[