Template:On this day - April 26

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

• 121 – Birth of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and Roman emperor, last of the so-called Five Good Emperors (d. 180).
• 757 – Birth of Hisham I of Al-Andalus, independent emir of the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain) (d. 796).
• 911 – Death of Wilfred II Borrell, Count of Barcelona, Gerona and Osona (present-day Spain) (b. 874).
• 1238 – In the Taifa of Málaga (present-day Spain), a revolt breaks out against Abd Allah Zannun, after which Málaga passes to Nasrid sovereignty.
• 1544 – Domingo Martínez de Irala replaces Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca as Governor of Paraguay.
• 1618 – In New Spain, the city of Córdoba is founded (present-day state of Veracruz, Mexico).
• 1790 – In New Spain, the Villa de la Divina Pastora de las Presas del Rey is founded (today Aldama, present-day state of Tamaulipas in Mexico).
• 1813 – At the Battle of Yerbas Buenas, the Chilean pro-independence forces under the command of Colonel Juan de Dios Puga clash with the royalist forces under the command of Brigadier Antonio Pareja.
• 1822 – In Peru, the Department of Ayacucho is created.
• 1829 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain approves a decree to proceed with the drafting of a new Penal Code.
• 1860 – The Treaty of Wad-Ras is signed in Tétouan, ending the African War between Spain and Morocco.
• 1898 – Birth of Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977 (d. 1984).
• 1922 – In Málaga (Spain), the Palace of the Customs House catches fire. 28 people die.
• 1928 – In Spain, Ramón Pérez de Ayala is elected a member of the Academy of the Language.
• 1937 – The German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria begin the bombing of Guernica, an event that will inspire Pablo Picasso's work, the Guernica.
• 1941 – Death of Eduardo Toda, Spanish diplomat, archaeologist, Egyptologist and sinologist (b. 1855).
• 1973 – Paraguay and Brazil sign the Treaty of the binational Itaipú dam.
• 1990 – Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, commander of the M-19 urban guerrilla and Colombian politician, is murdered (b. 1951).
• 1998 – In Guatemala City, Bishop Juan Gerardi is savagely murdered two days after publishing his report Guatemala: nunca más, in which he presented evidence of the state's guilt in the murder of 200,000 indigenous people and the exile of a million.
• 2013 – In Laayoune (Western Sahara), at least 40 people are injured by the Moroccan occupying forces during a pro-independence demonstration.