At the end of April 1788, Ali Pasha Tepelena started the military campaign to capture Janina/Ioannina. He defeated the opponents, surrounded and entered the city amid the cheers of the people.

On April 26, 1910, the inhabitants of Gryka e Vogël area of ​​Dibra rose up to prevent the entry of Ottoman troops into the Albanian mountains.

On April 26, 1915, representatives of Italy, England, France and Russia signed the secret treaty in London, in order to make Italy enter the War on their side. According to the treaty, after the WWI, Italy would take from Albania, Vlora and Sazan island, Greece Korça and Gjirokastër and their surroundings, Serbia and Montenegro, Shkodër and Kosova.

On April 26, 1919, the Peace Conference held in Paris approved the status of the League of Nations. Albania joined this organization in 1920.

On April 26, 1919, an ordinary building in central Albania was adopted as the first hospital by American Red Cross volunteers.

On April 26, 1980, an important object was added to the touristic Korça not only for us Albanians but also for foreigners, the “Museum of Medieval Art”, a special Museum in terms of the large number of painting masters, authors of icons (about 10 masters of iconography) and the diversity of the fund of objects it manages (8000 objects of Medieval Art, among which 6500 are icons). 

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