Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 26
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This is a list of selected February 26 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.February 26: Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991); Savior's Day in the Nation of Islam
- 1266 – King Manfred of Sicily was killed at the Battle of Benevento, fighting Angevin forces led by Charles of Anjou near Benevento, Italy.
- 1658 - Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655-1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the rest.
- 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) escaped from Elba, an island off the coast of Italy whereto he was exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier.
- 1935 – In Daventry, England, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.
- 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- 1993 – A bomb-laden van exploded in the underground garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and injuring more than one thousand people.
More events: February 25 – February 26 – February 27
