Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 26
August 26: Krishna Janmaashtami (Hinduism, 2005)
- 1071 – Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV in the Battle of Manzikert.
- 1346 – Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights was established in the Battle of Crécy.
- 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at Versailles.
- 1839 – The slave-held Amistad landed off Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
- 1883 – The volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia generated disastrous tsunamis, destroying many settlements on Java and Sumatra and killing 36,000 people.