May 26 in History

starts   2020

Racial unrest grips US in response to police brutality

ends   1972

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between US and Soviets

  1966

Guyana gains independence from the UK

starts   1941

British sink the German battleship *Bismarck*

starts   1940

Allied soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk

  1918

Georgia breaks away from Transcaucasia

  1908

First oil strike in Persian Gulf

starts   1902

Japanese crush resistance in Taiwan

  1864

Montana Territory created

  1857

Prussia renounces sovereignty over Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel

  1854

Allies occupy Piraeus

  1853

Last convict shipment arrives in Van Diemen’s Land

  1849

Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover sign alliance

ends   1846

Popular revolt in northern Portugal

  1839

Los Altos exits Central American Union

  1835

Ottomans reassert authority in Tripolitania

  1834

Treaty ends Liberal Wars in Portugal

starts   1521

Cortés captures Tenochtitlan, ending Aztec Empire

  451

Persians decisively defeat Armenians at Avarayr

  430

Vandals defeat Bonifatius near Hippo Regius*

ends   407

Saxons raid Gallic coast*

  366

Procopius’ remaining troops defect at Nacolia