1826
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- This page is about the year 1826. For the board game, see 1826.
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1823 1824 1825 - 1826 - 1827 1828 1829 |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
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Year 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1826
[edit] January - March
- January 30 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
- February 8 - Argentina. Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first President of the country.
- February 11 - University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
- February 13 - American Temperance Society founded.
[edit] April - June
- April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph.
- June 14-15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.
- June 22 - the Pan-American Congress of Panama tries (unsuccessfully) to unify American republics.
[edit] July - September
- Early July - Ludwig van Beethoven put the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
- July 4 - Former United States Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die.
- July 26 - Last auto de fe.
[edit] Undated
- First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
- Cholera epidemic begins in India
- The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1826 MDCCCXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2579 |
| Armenian calendar | 1275 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -18 – -17 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2370 |
| Chinese calendar | 4462/4522-11-23 (乙酉年十一月廿三日) — to —
4463/4523-12-3(丙戌年十二月初三日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1818 – 1819 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5586 – 5587 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1881 – 1882 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1748 – 1749 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4927 – 4928 |
| Holocene calendar | 11826 |
| Iranian calendar | 1204 – 1205 |
| Islamic calendar | 1241 – 1242 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 9 (文政9年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2486 (皇紀2486年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11826 |
| Julian calendar | 1871 |
| Korean calendar | 4159 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2369 |
[edit] January - June
- January 12 - William Chapman Ralston, banker and financier (d. 1875)
- January 26 - Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
- January 27 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
- January 27 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
- February 16 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)
- February 16 - Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
- March 4 - Theodore Judah, railroad engineer (d. 1863)
- March 24 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, pioneering feminist (d. 1898)
- March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- April 6 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
- April 26 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
- May 3 - King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872)
- May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
- June 24 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
[edit] July - December
- July 4 - Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet (d. 1864)
- July 4 - Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader (d. 1895)
- September 17 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
- November 13 - Charles Frederick Worth, English couturier (d. 1895)
- November 24 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (d. 1890)
[edit] Unknown dates
- William Daniel, American temperance movement leader (d. 1897)
- See also Category: 1826 births.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
- January 3 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
- March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
- May 16 - Elisabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. 1779)
- June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
[edit] July - December
- July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
- July 4 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- July 5 - Thomas Stamford Raffles, British colonial governor and founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
- July 8 - Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. 1746)
- July 22 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
- November 23 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
[edit] Unknown dates
- (none)
- See also Category: 1826 deaths.
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