On this day

March 26

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on March 26 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

1 event 1 century 1 country

1971

broadcast the country's first independence declaration on March 26, 1971 (initially by Major Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman). The

Chattogram Bangladesh

Chattogram was a major port for over 2,000 years — the city appears in Ptolemy's Geography (~150 CE) as a trading port.

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Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →