Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26
This is a list of selected March 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1027 – Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. | no footnotes |
| 1636 – Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established. | refimprove |
| 1871 – The Paris Commune was formally established in Paris. | Featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18 |
| 1881 – Domnitor Carol I was proclaimed the first King of Romania, beginning the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty. | no footnotes |
| 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force. | no footnotes |
| 1982 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was held. | Featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 13 |
| 1997 – Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide. | refimprove |
| 1999 – The Melissa computer virus was released, infecting email systems around the world. | refimprove, short |
| 2005 – The Taiwanese government called on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to China's Anti-Secession Law. | refimprove sections |
Eligible
- 590 – Byzantine emperor Maurice proclaimed his son Theodosius as his co-emperor.
- 1169 – Saladin was inaugurated as Emir of Egypt.
- 1344 – Reconquista: The Muslim city of Algeciras surrendered after a 21-month siege and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile.
- 1484 – William Caxton printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables.
- 1830 – The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, was first published.
- 1913 – First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, the Bulgarian Second Army captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.
- 1917 – First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
- 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
- 1971 – East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh, starting the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1973 – The first episode of The Young and the Restless was broadcast, eventually becoming the most watched daytime drama on American television from 1988 onwards.
- 1974 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, used their bodies to surround trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.
- 1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protesters destroyed much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
- 1999 – Jack Kevorkian, an American advocate for and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide, was found guilty of murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
- 2010 – An explosion allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan, killing 46 sailors.
March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971)
- 1351 – War of the Breton Succession: Thirty knights each from France and England fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany, which later was celebrated as a noble display of the ideals of chivalry.
- 1812 – The Boston Gazette printed a political cartoon (pictured) coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry's approval of legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
- 1885 – Feeling that Canada had failed to address the protection of their rights, the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, began the North-West Rebellion.
- 1953 – Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
- 1979 – By signing the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Egypt became the first Arab country to officially recognize Israel.