What happend on 26th May

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27.05
1864

Montana is organized as a United States territory.

1830

The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

1828

Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.

1805

Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.

1736

Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.

1670

In Dover, King Charles II of England and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.

1637

Pequot War: A combined Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.

1538

Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.

1328

William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena, and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a sentence of death from Pope John XXII.