What happend on 26th July

25.07
27.07
1788

New York ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 11th state of the United States.

1775

The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress.

1581

Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

1469

Battle of Edgecote Moor

1139

Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Castile