1582
Frans Hals (1582-1666)
was the main Dutch Golden Age portrait painter alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer.
On this day
August 26
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on August 26 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
2 events
2 centuries
2 countries
1883
The 1883 Krakatoa eruption
was one of the most-violent volcanic events in recorded human history — the Krakatoa volcano in the Sunda Strait erupted catastrophically on August 26-27, 1883, producing a foundational explosion estimated at approximately 200 megatons of TNT-equivalent energy (approximately…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →