Template:On this day - June 26

Francisco Pizarro

• 925 – Death of Pelagius of Córdoba, a thirteen-year-old Christian boy martyred in the Caliphate of Abd al-Rahman III, and later canonized by the Catholic Church (b. 911).
• 1300 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, Sultan Muhammad II takes Alcaudete (Jaén) after four days of fighting.
• 1541 – Death of the Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Pizarro, murdered in Lima in a plot led by a son of Diego de Almagro (b. 1478).
• 1557 – Death of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Spanish writer and chronicler (b. 1478).
• 1811 – In Chihuahua, Juan Aldama, Ignacio Allende and José Mariano Jiménez, insurgent military officers who took part in the Independence of Mexico, are executed by firing squad.
• 1867 – Birth of Pelayo Quintero Atauri, Spanish painter and writer (d. 1946).
• 1908 – Birth of Salvador Allende, president of Chile from 1970 to 1973 (d. 1973).
• 1924 – In the Dominican Republic the United States invasion ends and the troops begin to withdraw.
• 1927 – José María Robles Hurtado, Mexican priest and writer, is hanged during the Cristero War (b. 1888).
• 1942 – At Veracruz (Mexico) the Nazi German submarine U-129 sinks the Mexican oil tanker Túxpam and 4 Mexican sailors die.
• 1964 – Venezuela breaks off diplomatic and commercial relations with Cuba, accusing Fidel Castro of exporting violent revolution. Rural guerrillas are fighting at that time throughout Venezuelan territory.
• 1975 – Death of Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, Spanish priest, founder of Opus Dei (b. 1902).
• 1980 – In El Salvador, the Revolutionary Government Junta orders a military intervention at the University of El Salvador, which it will then keep closed for four years.
• 1999 – Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe sign a maritime boundary treaty, thus creating the maritime boundary between the two countries.
• 2016 – The Panama Canal expansion is inaugurated, the largest expansion work since the opening of this interoceanic waterway.