1826 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1826 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

30 January - The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.^[1]
11 February - University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
24 February - Treaty of Yandabo cedes Arakan peninsula to Britain, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War.^[2]
April - A number of leading scientists form the Zoological Society of London.
19 June - Tories under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win a substantial an increased majority over the Whigs in the general election.
20 June - Treaty of Bangkok increases British control over south-east Asia.^[2]
1 July - The Conway Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened in North Wales, completing his improvements to the Holyhead road.^[1]
10 August - The first Cowes Regatta is held on the Isle of Wight.^[3]
18 August - Explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.^[4]
26 September - Alexander Laing murdered in Timbuktu.

The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
Longstone Lighthouse first illuminated as Outer Farne Lighthouse (Joseph Nelson, engineer).
Construction of the National Monument, Edinburgh on Calton Hill (to the dead of the Napoleonic Wars) is commenced; it will never be completed.

Benjamin Disraeli's (anonymous) first novel Vivian Grey.
Walter Scott's novel Woodstock.
Felicia Dorothea Hemans' poem Casabianca, in The New Monthly Magazine (August).
Christian Isobel Johnstone (as Margaret Dods)'s The Cook and Housewife's Manual.
John C. Loudon's periodical The Gardener's Magazine first issued.

26 May - Richard Christopher Carrington, astronomer (died 1875)
24 June - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898)
5 September - John Wisden, cricketer and creator of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (died 1884)

10 March - John Pinkerton, antiquarian (born 1758)
5 July - Stamford Raffles, colonial governor and founder of Singapore (born 1781)
26 August - Lady Sarah Lennox, courtier (born 1745)
4 September - Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford, lawyer, judge and politician (born 1779)
26 September - Alexander Gordon Laing, explorer (born 1793)
26 November - John Nichols, printer and author (born 1745)
31 December - William Gifford, satirist (born 1756)

↑ 1.0 1.1 Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 254–255. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

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