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26 February| 26 February 1482 | Granada, Castile, Aragon, Spain [wars] | Castilian forces under Ferdinand of Aragon capture the stronghold of Alhama from Muslim Granada. `Abu-Abd-Il (Boabdil), governor of Guadix, Granada, is aided by the Abencerrajes family in usurping the throne of Granada from his father `Ali Abu-al-Hasan (Muley Hacen) who retreats to Málaga, Spain. | | 26 February 1658 | Sweden, Denmark-Norway [wars] | The Treaty of Roskild ends the first Swedish-Danish war. Denmark loses possession of land in southern Sweden and Tröndheim in Norway. | | 26 February 1802 | France [births and deaths] | Victor Hugo, French Romantic novelist, born in Besançon, France (–1885). | | 26 February 1839 | UK [horse-racing] | Lottery, ridden by Jem Mason, wins the inaugural Grand National horse race at Aintree, Liverpool, England. | | 26 February 1858 | UK [administration] | The English statesman Edward Stanley, Lord Derby, becomes prime minister of a Conservative government in Britain following the resignation of the Whig Henry Temple, Lord Palmerston. | | 26 February 1920 | [administration] | In accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations takes over the Saar area between France and Germany; France takes control of the Saar's coal deposits. | | 26 February 1952 | UK [political events] | The British prime minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has produced its own atomic bomb. The first successful test of the new weapon takes place on 2 October over the Monte Bello Islands in the Pacific Ocean. | | 26 February 2003 | UK [political events] | In a parliamentary debate in the British House of Commons, Prime Minister Tony Blair's support for a military response by the international community to disarm the Iraqi regime led by President Saddam Hussein is rejected by more than 120 members of his own Labour Party. The Commons vote, although carried with support of opposition parties, is the biggest rebellion within a governing party in over a century. | | 26 February 2007 | [Balkan conflicts (c. 1991–2000)] | In the first ruling of its kind, the International Court of Justice, as the supreme judicial authority of the United Nations, declares that Serbia was not responsible for genocide in Bosnia during the 1992–95 war in former Yugoslavia. However, it denounces Serbia for failing to prevent the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 by the Bosnian Serb military. |
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