- 1580 26 Sep Sailing into Plymouth, Francis Drake completes the first circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman.
- 1687 26 Sep The Parthenon in Athens, unscathed since 432 BC, is severely damaged by a gunpowder explosion.
- 1944 26 Sep 'Operation Market Garden', an Allied plan to seize bridges over the Rhine, fails and the bridges are lost.
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