Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26
March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971), Holy Saturday in Western Christianity, Rangapanchami (Holi) in Hinduism (2005)
- 1707 - By the Act of Union, England and Scotland merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1871 - The Paris Commune was formally established.
- 1881 - Domnitor Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was proclaimed the first King of Romania.
- 1973 - The first of more than eight thousand episodes of the American soap opera The Young and the Restless was broadcast on television.
- 1999 - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an advocate for physician-assisted suicide, was found guilty of murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.