Template:On this day/February 26
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- 1861 – Students at the University of Virginia briefly display the Confederate flag on the Rotunda dome, said to be the first time the flag is flown in the state. After Virginia secedes on April 17th, the faculty installs the flag on the dome officially.
- 1865 – Nannie Cox Jackson, an African-American educator, was born in Charlottesville.
- 1976 – After a fire began in the night, flames roared through and destroyed an aging frame hotel and the Exxon station near the main downtown intersection in Scottsville. Two nights later another fire destroyed the lumber firm and church, plus several nearby outbuildings, and heavily damaged two houses.