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On this day - March 26
590 — Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of ...
624 — First Eid al-Fitr celebration.
1021 — The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept ...
1027 — Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 — Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1244 — The crown of Aragon and the crown of Castile agree in the ...
1344 — The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military ...
1351 — Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and ...
1484 — William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 — Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
1636 — Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1640 — The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, ...
1651 — The Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José, pushed south by ...
1697 — Safavid government troops take control of Basra.
1700 — William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New ...
1812 — A political cartoon in the Boston-Gazette coins the term ...
1812 — An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela.
1830 — The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 — The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1871 — The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
1885 — The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis ...
1896 — An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, ...
1913 — First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1915 — The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, ...
1917 — World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted ...
1922 — The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1931 — Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1931 — Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1934 — The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
1939 — Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of ...
1942 — World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz ...
1945 — World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is ...
1954 — Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is ...
1955 — Pan Am Flight 845/26 ditches in the Pacific Ocean off the ...
1958 — The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in ...
1958 — The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1967 — Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins ...
1970 — South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land ...
1971 — East Pakistan, then province of Pakistan, declares its ...
1975 — The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1979 — An Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro ...
1979 — Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the ...
1981 — Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
1982 — A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is ...
1991 — Singapore Airlines Flight 117 is hijacked by four Pakistani ...
1991 — Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of ...
1997 — Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass ...
1998 — During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees ...
2005 — Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in ...
2010 — The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing ...
2017 — Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada ...
2024 — The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses following a collision ...