Major Anniversaries -- 2026 Tracker
India's 2025-26 calendar is unusually thick with round-number milestones, and exams love them. This tracker gathers the year's major commemorations -- freedom-struggle centenaries, reformer bicentenaries and civilisational anniversaries -- with the sharp who-what-when most likely to be tested. Several carry official Government of India programmes, from Republic Day 2026's Vande Mataram theme to the Patel and Birsa Munda 150th-year celebrations and the Somnath millennium; others are landmark historical anniversaries worth a line each. The 9 August cluster is the densest date on the list: the Quit India Movement and the Kakori Train Action share it. The newest entries are institutional jubilees: the Uranium Corporation of India Limited began its Diamond Jubilee Year on 4 October 2026, and Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff reached 25 years on 1 October, the date the UPSC also turned 100. Every entry below pins the figure, the date and the commemoration.
- Sardar Patel 150
- Birsa Munda
- Vande Mataram
- Kakori Train Action
- Somnath
- First Battle of Panipat
- Dadabhai Naoroji
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- Bhupen Hazarika
- birth centenary
- Assam
- Bharat Ratna
- UPSC centenary
- Military Nursing Service centenary
- UCIL Diamond Jubilee
- Uranium Corporation of India
- HQ IDS Silver Jubilee
- Tri-Service Day
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