Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 26
July 26: Independence Day in Liberia (1847) and Maldives (1965)
- 811 - Bulgarian forces led by Krum defeated a Byzantine invasion in the Battle of Pliska, killed Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I and severely wounded his son and co-emperor Staurakios.
- 1139 - After a victory over the Almoravid Moors in the Battle of Ourique, Afonso the Conqueror (pictured) was proclaimed the first king of an independent Portugal.
- 1822 - José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil to plan for the future of South America.
- 1887 - L. L. Zamenhof published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
- 1953 - Fidel Castro led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.