Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 26
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- 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 (pictured) generated disastrous tsunamis, destroying many settlements on Java and Sumatra in Indonesia and killing 36,000 people.
