26 March

National

• Bangladesh - Independence Day.
• Vietnam - Youth Day.
• USA , Hawaii - Kuhio Day.
• Ukraine - Day of the National Guard of Ukraine .

Religious

Catholicism

• memory of the martyr (304);
• memory of ;
• memory of St. Larissa (375);
• memory of St. Braulio of Zaragoza ;
• memory of St. Ludger (809);
• memory of the martyr Margaret Clitrow (1586).

Orthodoxy ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Patriarch Nicephorus trample on the iconoclastic

• the transfer of the relics of St. Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinople (846);
• memory of the martyr Savin of Yermopolsky (Egypt) (287);
• memory of the martyrs of Africa, Publius and Terenty (III century);
• the memory of the martyr Alexander Pidnsky (305-311);
• memory of the martyr Christine of Persia (IV century);
• memory of Rev. Anin of Chalcedon, presbyter;
• memory of the holy martyr Nikolai Popov , presbyter (1919);
• memory of the holy martyr Gregory Pospelov , presbyter (1921);
• memory of the holy martyr Michael Okolovich , presbyter (1938);
• Moldavian icon of the Mother of God .

Name Day

• Catholic: Larisa , Ludger, Margarita , Felicita / Felicita, Emmanuel .
• Orthodox: Alexander , Anin, African , Gregory , Christina , Michael , Nicephorus , Nikolai , Publius, Savin , Terenty ^{[2] [3]} .

See also: Category: March 26 events

Until the 19th century

• 1351 - The Battle of Thirty took place in Brittany .
• 1668 - England gained control of Bombay .
• 1713 - Spain granted England the exclusive right to the slave trade in the American possessions of Spain .
• 1787 - Catherine II , while in Kiev , ordered to mint a medal in honor of her visit to southern Russia .

XIX century

• 1807 - The Noble Volunteer Corps was formed, formed for a short military training of noblemen who reached the age of 16. In 1859, the corps was renamed the school, since 1894 it was called the Konstantinovsky artillery school .
• 1812 - on Maundy Thursday an earthquake 90% destroyed Caracas , about 20 thousand dead
• 1828 - Franz Schubert gave his only public concert .
• 1830 - Book of Mormon published
• 1837 - In St. Petersburg, in the premises of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, the first drawing of the first Russian win-win art lottery took place .
• 1839 - An annual rowing regatta was established in Henley-on-Thames.
• 1845 - A medical patch is patented in the United States.
• 1848 - Nicholas I published the Manifesto in connection with the February Revolution in Paris and the revolutionary rebellion in Vienna : "Russia, the bastion of Europe, does not succumb to revolutionary influences."
• 1851 - A monument to Ivan Susanin is unveiled in Kostroma .
• 1857 - The Bromley Brothers Plant (now the Red Proletariat Plant) was founded in Moscow .
• 1871 - The council of the Paris Commune is elected.
• 1872 - The first postal card was issued in Russia.
• 1881
  • Romania is proclaimed kingdom.
  • In connection with the assassination of Alexander II, the Monk Ambrose of Optina wrote the message “Nihilists and Tsarubits are the essence of the forerunner of the Antichrist” .

XX century

• 1903 - "Zlatoust Massacre" - the execution by tsarist troops of striking workers in Zlatoust .
• 1906 - The elections to the I State Duma began .
• 1908 - All cars are banned on Prince Edward Island ( Canada ).
• 1912 - the first puppet film in the Russian animation “The Beautiful Lucanida, or the Barbel War with Stag Beetles ” was created (author V. A. Starevich ).
• 1917 - The historian and politician Mikhail Grushevsky returned from exile to Ukraine.
• 1921 - The Canadian schooner " Blues " was launched, which then did not lose a single race (now this schooner is depicted in Canadian ten cents).
• 1928 - The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR decided to increase the number of forced labor colonies.
• 1934 - Car driving exams are introduced in Britain .
• 1941 - The establishment of the Stalin Prizes (later renamed State).
• 1944 - World War II : The exit of Soviet troops to the border of the USSR in the vicinity of the Prut River
• 1945 - World War II : the capture of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima by the American army.
• 1948 - The introduction of the US embargo on the trade of so-called strategic goods with socialist countries.
• 1953
  • American physician Jonas Edward Salk announced the successful trial of a polio vaccine .
  • L.P. Beria submitted to the Presidium of the Central Committee an amnesty project, according to which about half of the people in prison were subject to immediate release. The next day, the project was approved by the Presidium of the Central Committee.
• 1954 - Publication of a statement by the Government of the Soviet Union on the recognition of the full sovereignty of the GDR .
• 1956
  • An agreement was signed on the establishment of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna .
  • In the USSR , maternity leave was increased from 77 to 112 days.
• 1958 - The Explorer-3 American artificial Earth satellite was launched to study Earth radiation and micrometeorites.
• 1960 - A new football tournament was established - the Cup of European Cup Winners . Soviet clubs have achieved the greatest success in this tournament, having won three times in it.
• 1966 - The pirate Isabelo Mayor and another 7 people from his gang appeared in court, and all were sentenced to life imprisonment .
• 1971
  • The Republic of Bangladesh is proclaimed.
  • The group " Emerson, Lake and Palmer " during a performance in Newcastle ( UK ) recorded their interpretation of " Pictures from the exhibition " by Mussorgsky . The released album then reached third place in the English charts.
• 1973 - The first women admitted to the London Stock Exchange .
• 1975 - In London , the premiere of Ken Russell's " Tommy ", staged on the rock opera of the band " The Who ".
• 1976 - President Anwar Sadat banned the entry of Soviet warships into Egyptian ports.
• 1979 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty after two years of negotiations.
• 1982 - In Oakville ( Ontario ) the first twins in Canada were born, conceived in vitro.
• 1989 - For the first time on an alternative basis, elections of people's deputies were held in the USSR .
• 1995 - The Schengen agreements on the abolition of passport control at borders came into force in seven EU countries.
• 1996 - The International Monetary Fund allocated $ 6.9 billion to Russia , the largest loan in IMF history.
• 1999 - The appearance of the virus " ", which hit in a short time hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.
• 2000 - Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia .

21st Century

• 2001 - Representatives of the Taliban- ruling movement in Afghanistan showed reporters two ruined giant Buddha statues carved into the rocks in Bamiyan province.
• 2017 - Mass actions against corruption in Russia , initiated by Alexei Navalny and held in more than 80 cities of Russia.

See also: Category: Born on March 26

Until the 19th century

• 1483 - Raphael (other possible birth dates are March 28 or April 6 ; d. 1520 ), Italian painter and architect.

• 1516 - Conrad Gesner (d. 1565 ), Swiss naturalist, philologist, author of the first bibliographic work.
• 1698 - Prokop Divis (d. 1765 ), Czech priest, theologian and natural scientist, inventor of the lightning rod.
• 1709 - Vasily Adodurov (or Adadurov ; d. 1780 ), Russian philologist, mathematician, teacher of Lomonosov and Catherine II.
• 1753 - Benjamin Rumford (d. 1814 ), English physicist, member of the Royal Society of London.
• 1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (d. 1872 ), German romantic artist.

XIX century

• 1815 - Gustav Rumelin (d. 1889 ), German politician, teacher, statistician.
• 1832
  • Michel Breal (d. 1915 ), French linguist and historian.
  • Berend Wilhelm Feddersen (d. 1918 ), German physicist.
• 1842 - Saint-Yves D'Alveidre (d. 1909 ), French occultist, Marquis.
• 1849 - Arman Peugeot (d. 1915 ), French car manufacturer, founder of Peugeot .
• 1859 - Alfred Edward Houseman (d. 1936 ), English poet.
• 1868 - Ahmad Fuad I (d. 1936 ), the Sultan (since 1917), and then the King of Egypt and Sudan (since 1922).
• 1874 - Robert Frost (d. 1963 ), American poet, four times Pulitzer Prize winner .
• 1876 - Wilhelm Weed (d. 1945 ), the first and only prince of Albania (in 1914).
• 1884 - Wilhelm Buckhaus (d. 1969 ), German pianist.
• 1893 - Palmiro Tolyatti (d. 1964 ), Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party, leader of the international labor movement.

XX century

• 1901 - Alexander Kolobaev (d. 1980 ), theater actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957).
• 1904
  • Fernandez Emilio (d. 1986 ), Mexican film director, screenwriter, actor.
  • Joseph Campbell (d. 1987 ), American researcher of ancient myths.
• 1907 - Villo Westerinen (d. 1961 ), Finnish accordionist and composer.
• 1908 - Sergey Sartakov (d. 1993 ), writer, laureate of the USSR State Prize.
• 1911
  • Tennessee Williams (d. 1983 ), American writer and playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner.
  • John Langshaw Austin (d. 1960 ), English language philosopher.
  • Bernard Katz (d. 2003 ), English physiologist, Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine (1970).
• 1914 - William Westmoreland (d. 2005 ), American general, in 1964-1968 commander of the US forces in Vietnam .
• 1915 - Josef Stekhlik (d. 1991 ), Czechoslovak pilot-ace, participant in the Second World War.
• 1916 - Christian Bemer Anfinsen (d. 1995 ), American biochemist, Nobel laureate (1972).
• 1918 - Pyotr Pashkevich (d. 1997 ), Soviet film artist, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1925 - Pierre Boulez , French conductor and composer.
• 1930
  • Gregory Corso (d. 2001 ), American poet and artist, one of the key representatives of hipsters .
  • Lolita Torres (d. 2002 ), Argentinean actress and singer.
  • Sandra Day O'Connor , first woman in the US Supreme Court .
• 1931 - Leonard Nimoy (d. 2015 ), American film actor, director.
• 1933 - Tinto Brass , Italian filmmaker (“ All Ladies Do It ,” “ Peeping ,” “ Breaking the Bans, ” etc.).
• 1934 - Alan Arkin , American film actor, winner of the Oscar and other awards.
• 1935 - Mahmoud Abbas , Palestinian politician, chairman of the Fatah movement, since 2013 President of the State of Palestine .
• 1938 - Alexey Petrenko (d. 2017 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1940 - James Caan , American film actor.
• 1941 - Richard Dawkins , English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, critic of creationism and intelligent design.
• 1944 - Diana Ross , American singer, songwriter, actress, music producer.
• 1945 - Mikhail Voronin (d. 2004 ), Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic champion, two-time world champion.
• 1946
  • Vladimir Presnyakov (senior) , composer, singer and musician, participant of the VIA " Gems ", Honored Artist of Russia.
  • Lyudmila Titova , Honored Master of Sports in Speed ​​Skating, Olympic champion.
• 1948 - Stephen Tyler , American rock musician, vocalist and leader of the band " Aerosmith ".
• 1949 - Patrick Suskind , German writer and screenwriter.
• 1950 - Alan Silvestri , American composer, author of film music.
• 1951 - Alexey Buldakov , theater and film actor (" Features of the National Hunt ", etc.), People's Artist of Russia.
• 1960 - Jennifer Gray , American film actress ( Dirty Dancing ).
• 1962
  • Andrey Lavrov , Soviet and Russian handball player, goalkeeper, three-time Olympic champion.
  • Yuri Gidzenko , Russian test cosmonaut.
  • John Stockton , American basketball player, two-time Olympic champion.
• 1970 - Martin McDonagh , Irish screenwriter, playwright, film director.
• 1973 - Larry Page , American programmer, developer and co-founder of the Google search engine.
• 1976 - Amy Smart , American actress.
• 1981 - Danis Zaripov , Russian hockey player, three-time world champion.
• 1985 - Keira Knightley , English actress.
• 1993 - Anastasia Kozhevnikova , Ukrainian singer, member of the group " VIA Gra ".
• 1998 - Satoko Miyahara , Japanese single skater, continental champion.

See also: Category: March 26 dead

Until the 19th century

• 1350 - Alphonse XI (b. 1311 ), king of Castile and Leon (from 1312).
• 1527 - Giovanni di Niccolo Mansueti (b. 1465 ), Italian Renaissance artist.
• 1609 - John Dee (b. 1527 ), English mathematician and geographer, royal astrologer.
• 1649 - John Winthrop (b. 1588 ), American statesman and politician, author of one of the first American chronicles.
• 1720 - Pietro Guarneri (b. 1655 ), Italian master of stringed musical instruments.
• 1726 - John Vanbrew (b. 1664 ), English playwright and architect.
• 1737 - Vakhtang VI (b. 1675 ), king of Kartli (1711-1714 and 1716-1724).
• 1797 - James Hutton (b. 1726 ), Scottish naturalist, geologist, physicist and chemist.

XIX century

• 1804 - Farkas Wolfgang Kempelen (b. 1734 ), Hungarian engineer and inventor.
• 1814
  • Nikolai Arkharov (b. 1742 ), Chief Police Officer of Moscow, Moscow Governor (1781-1784), Governor General of the Tver and Novgorod Viceroyages (1785-1796), St. Petersburg Province (1796-1797).
  • Joseph Guillotin (b. 1738 ), French physician and politician; the guillotine is named after him.
• 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven (b. 1770 ), German composer, conductor and pianist, one of three " Viennese classics ".
• 1870 - Michal Goja (b. 1811 ), Slovak writer, preacher, leader of the Slovak uprising against the Hungarians.
• 1892 - Walt Whitman (b. 1819 ), American poet and publicist.
• 1898 - Peter Kapnist (b. 1830 ), Russian writer, playwright, poet.

XX century

• 1902 - Cecil John Rhodes (b. 1853 ), born in England, a South African politician.
• 1915 - Konstantin Ivanov (b. 1890 ), Chuvash poet (“Narspi”, “Widow”, “Slave of the Devil”, etc.).
• 1918 - Caesar Cui (b. 1835 ), Russian composer, member of The Mighty Handful , music critic, scientist in the field of fortification, engineer, general.
• 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt (b. 1844 ), French actress of Jewish descent.
• 1940
  • Spiridon Luis (b. 1873 ), Greek athlete, first Olympic champion in marathon (1896).
  • Julius Shokalsky (b. 1856 ), Russian and Soviet oceanographer, in 1917-1931. President of the Geographical Society of the USSR .
• 1945
  • Sabir Rakhimov (b. 1902 ) Soviet military commander, divisional commander , guards major general, Hero of the Soviet Union .
  • Boris Shaposhnikov (b. 1882 ), Soviet military leader and military theorist, Marshal of the Soviet Union .
• 1945 - David Lloyd George (b. 1863 ), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1916-1922).
• 1947 - Yakov Fedorenko (b. 1896 ), Soviet military leader, marshal of armored forces , four-time cavalier of the Order of Lenin .
• 1957 - Edouard Herriot (b. 1872 ), French politician and statesman, writer, historian, publicist, academician.
• 1959 - Raymond Chandler (b. 1888 ), American realist writer and critic, author of detective novels, short stories and short stories.
• 1968 - Chrysanthus of Kherson (b. 1897 ), Soviet screenwriter, critic, playwright and prose writer.
• 1973
  • Mikhail Kalatozov (b. 1903 ), film director, screenwriter, cameraman, people's artist of the USSR.
  • Noel Pierce Coward (b. 1899 ), English playwright, actor, composer and director.
• 1980 - Roland Barth (b. 1915 ), French philosopher and literary critic.
• 1983 - Anthony Blunt (b. 1907 ), English art critic and Soviet intelligence.
• 1987 - Eugen Jochum (b. 1902 ), German conductor.
• 1989 - Maris Liepa (b. 1936 ), ballet dancer, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1993
  • Tofig Bahramov (b. 1926 ), Soviet and Azerbaijani football referee.
  • Ruben Fine (born 1914 ), American chess player, grandmaster , chess theorist, writer, psychologist.
  • Anatoly Yatskov (b. 1913 ), Soviet intelligence officer, employee of state security agencies.
• 1995
  • Vladimir Maximov (b. 1930 ), Russian writer, poet and publicist, emigrant.
  • Evgeny Aksyonov (b. 1933 ), Soviet and Russian astronomer.
  • Eric Wright (Eazy-E) (b. 1963 ), American rap artist.
• 1996 - David Packard (b. 1912 ), an American businessman, one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard .
• 1998 - Nikolai Dubinin (b. 1907 ), Soviet and Russian geneticist, academician, Hero of Socialist Labor.

21st Century

• 2005 - Clara Luchko (b. 1925 ), film actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 2007 - Mikhail Ulyanov (b. 1927 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 2008 - Anatoly Azolsky (b. 1930 ), Russian Soviet writer.
• 2011
  • Alexander Barykin (b. 1952 ), Soviet and Russian rock musician, composer, singer.
  • Diana Wynn Jones (b. 1934 ), British writer, author of science fiction novels.
• 2013 - Nikolai Sorokin (b. 1952 ), theater and film actor, people's artist of Russia.
• 2014 - Hina Pelion (p. 1926 ), Cuban artist and poet.
• 2015 - Yuri Trofimov (b. 1940 ), Soviet and Russian animator, cartoon director, film artist.
• 2018
  • Ksenia Myalo (b. 1936 ), Soviet and Russian political scientist, culturologist, publicist, public figure.
  • Sergei Mavrodi (b. 1955 ), Russian entrepreneur, founder of MMM .

• Fogs on this day portend a rainy summer .
• If spring drives snow away on red days, bread is born.
• If the first of the migratory birds comes the lark , it means to be warm, but if the finch - it will be cold weather ^[6] .