33541 | March 26 | Event | 1351 – Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights. |
33542 | March 26 | Event | 1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables. |
33543 | March 26 | Event | 1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru. |
33544 | March 26 | Event | 1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands. |
33545 | March 26 | Event | 1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela. |
33546 | March 26 | Event | 1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection. |
33547 | March 26 | Event | 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. |
33548 | March 26 | Event | 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. |
33549 | March 26 | Event | 1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again. |
33550 | March 26 | Event | 1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada. |
33551 | March 26 | Event | 1913 – Balkan Wars: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople. |
33552 | March 26 | Event | 1915 – Ice hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association. |
33553 | March 26 | Event | 1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. |
33554 | March 26 | Event | 1922 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. |
33555 | March 26 | Event | 1931 – Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland. |
33556 | March 26 | Event | 1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam. |
33557 | March 26 | Event | 1934 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced. |
33558 | March 26 | Event | 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war. |
33559 | March 26 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. |
33560 | March 26 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. |
33561 | March 26 | Event | 1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3. |
33562 | March 26 | Event | 1958 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. |
33563 | March 26 | Event | 1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City |
33564 | March 26 | Event | 1970 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy |
33565 | March 26 | Event | 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. |
33566 | March 26 | Event | 1974 – Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko movement in India. |
33567 | March 26 | Event | 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. |
33568 | March 26 | Event | 1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails. |
33569 | March 26 | Event | 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C. |
33570 | March 26 | Event | 1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.. |