The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 26 April 1326Country in Western Europe (843–1792; 1815–1848)
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 26 April 1564English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.📜 HISTORY🌍 ITALY🗓️ 26 April 19151914–1918 global conflict
The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA🗓️ 26 April 1923King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
The British space programme launches its first satellite📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 26 April 1962Official efforts to develop space capabilities
A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 26 April 2025Vehicle ramming attack in British Columbia, Canada
A coalition of Britain📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 SPAIN🗓️ 25 April 1707Battle in the War of the Spanish Succession
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 25 April 1829Royal Navy Admiral (1800–1869)
The Governor General of Canada📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 25 April 1849Federal representative of the Canadian monarch
British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 25 April 1859Artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt
World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British📜 HISTORY🌍 INDIA🗓️ 25 April 19151914–1918 global conflict
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 24 April 1704British colonies forming the United States
The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9📜 HISTORY🌍 INDIA🗓️ 24 April 1837Fire in British India
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 19181914–1918 global conflict
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 1922Radiotelegraphic communications network within the British Empire in the 20th century
Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 1932British left-wing political activist (1911–2002)