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. Every entry below pins the figure, the date and the commemoration.