Historical Events on February 26

Napoleon Bonaparte

Here are some historical events that took place on February 26:

1616 - Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from the Island of Elba in the Mediterranean, beginning his second conquest of France, known as the Hundred Days.

1848 - The Second French Republic is proclaimed in France.

1909 - Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

1919 - Grand Canyon National Park is established as the 15th National Park in the United States.

1929 - President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill creating Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

1935 - Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the Treaty of Versailles.

1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atomic bomb.

1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.

2012 - Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American, is fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.

2013 - Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415.

2021 - NASA's Perseverance Rover successfully lands on Mars in the Jezero Crater, beginning its mission to search for signs of past microbial life and collect samples of Martian rock and regolith (soil).

These are just a few notable events that have occurred on February 26 throughout history.