User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/January 26

January 26

 * 1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
 * 1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
 * 1885 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
 * 1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
 * 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
 * 1942 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
 * 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.