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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 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.
The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826
  • 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

1826 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1826
MDCCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita 2579
Armenian calendar 1275
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Assyrian calendar 6576
Bahá'í calendar -18–-17
Bengali calendar 1233
Berber calendar 2776
British Regnal year 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
    • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
    • Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
  • February 16
    • Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)
    • James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University
    • 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)
  • July 4
    • Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet (d. 1864)
    • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)


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