1826
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s |
Years: | 1823 1824 1825 – 1826 – 1827 1828 1829 |
- For the game, see: 1826 (board game).
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 Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1826
- 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.
- April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- May 28 - Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as King of Portugal.
- 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.
- 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 26 - Last auto de fe in Valencia.
Undated
- First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
- The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
- Aniline was first isolated from the destructive distillation of indigo by Otto Unverdorben
- Ludwig Van Beethoven composes the Grosse Fuge.
Births
Gregorian calendar | 1826 MDCCCXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2579 |
Armenian calendar | 1275 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6576 |
Bahá'í calendar | -18–-17 |
Bengali calendar | 1233 |
Berber calendar | 2776 |
British Regnal year | 6 Geo. 4 – 7 Geo. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2370 |
Burmese calendar | 1188 |
Byzantine calendar | 7334–7335 |
Chinese calendar | 乙酉年十一月廿三日 (4462/4522-11-23) — to — 丙戌年十二月初三日(4463/4523-12-3) |
Coptic calendar | 1542–1543 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1818–1819 |
Hebrew calendar | 5586–5587 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1882–1883 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1748–1749 |
- Kali Yuga | 4927–4928 |
Holocene calendar | 11826 |
Igbo calendar | |
- Ǹrí Ìgbò | 826–827 |
Iranian calendar | 1204–1205 |
Islamic calendar | 1241–1242 |
Japanese calendar | Bunsei 9 (文政9年) |
Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4159 |
Minguo calendar | 86 before ROC 民前86年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2369 |
- January 12 - William Chapman Ralston, banker and financier (d. 1875)
- January 26 - Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
- January 27
- February 16
- 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)
- July 4
- 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)
- date unknown - William Daniel, American temperance movement leader (d. 1897)
Deaths
- 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)
- July 4
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- July 5 - 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)