What are the important events that happened on February 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 26: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 26 is the 57^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 13, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,008,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontaheptagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 356 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,450 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 26 Historical Events

• 747 BCE –
  Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar Era.
• 364 –
  Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 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 territory to Sweden to save the rest.
• 1876 –
  Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
• 1917 –
  The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 1919 –
  President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
• 1946 –
  Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
• 1966 –
  Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
• 1980 –
  Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• 2004 –
  Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Who were born on February 26?

• 1908 –
  Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
• 1926 –
  Verne Gagne, American wrestler
• 1945 –
  Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
• 1954 –
  Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, heir to the deposed Kingdom of Hanover and husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco
• 1968 –
  Tim Commerford, American bassist(Rage Against the Machine)
• 1973 –
  Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
• 1980 –
  Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 –
  Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
• 1991 –
  CL (singer), South Korean singer/rapper (2NE1)
• 1993 –
  Taylor Dooley, American actress

Who died on February 26?

• 420 –
  Saint Porphyry, Palestine bishop
• 1577 –
  King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
• 1638 –
  Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)
• 1864 –
  Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (b. 1807)
• 1921 –
  Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
• 1947 –
  Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
• 1969 –
  Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
• 1989 –
  Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
• 2009 –
  Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (b. 1932)
• 2011 –
  Arnošt Lustig, Czech writer (b. 1926)