På denne dag: 26. mars
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
590: Historisk hendelse
Byzantine emperor Maurice proclaimed his son Theodosius as his co-emperor.
1169: Historisk hendelse
Saladin (depicted on coin) was inaugurated as vizier of Egypt.
1344: Historisk hendelse
Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
1484: Historisk hendelse
William Caxton (pictured) printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables.
1651: Historisk hendelse
The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.
1697: Historisk hendelse
The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.
1812: Historisk hendelse
The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry (pictured), who approved the legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.
1873: Historisk hendelse
A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War.
1885: Historisk hendelse
Perceiving that the Canadian government was failing to protect their rights, the Métis people led by Louis Riel began the North-West Rebellion.
1896: Historisk hendelse
An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.
1913: Historisk hendelse
First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.
1917: Historisk hendelse
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
1939: Historisk hendelse
Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
1942: Historisk hendelse
The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.
1953: Historisk hendelse
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
1974: Historisk hendelse
A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.
1975: Historisk hendelse
The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
1991: Historisk hendelse
Singapore Airlines Flight 117 was hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport.
1997: Historisk hendelse
Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.
1999: Historisk hendelse
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
2009: Historisk hendelse
A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
2010: Historisk hendelse
An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
2024: Historisk hendelse
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed following a collision between the MV Dali container ship and one of the bridge's support pillars, killing 6 people.
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.