About March 26

March 26, 2025 is the 85th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 280 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 328 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 26

  • 1026 –
    Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1484 –
    William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
  • 1636 –
    Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
  • 1808 –
    Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
  • 1812 –
    An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
  • 1830 –
    The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
  • 1839 –
    The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
  • 1881 –
    Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
  • 1913 –
    Balkan War: Bulgarian forces invade Adrianople.
  • 1934 –
    The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: In Poland, the first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
  • 1967 –
    Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
  • 1971 –
    East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
  • 1975 –
    The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
  • 1976 –
    Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
  • 1982 –
    A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
  • 1991 –
    Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
  • 1997 –
    Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides.
  • 1998 –
    Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
  • 1999 –
    The “Melissa worm” infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.

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