1826

	1826 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Sports – Rail Transport
	Countries: Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1823 1824 1825 – 1826 – 1827 1828 1829

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 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

[edit] 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 – Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first President of Argentina.
February 11 – University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
February 11 – Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, an important test within the Swaminarayan faith.
February 13 – The American Temperance Society is 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 the American republics.
Early July – Ludwig van Beethoven puts 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 – Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die.
July 26 – The last auto de fé is held in Valencia.

The first railway tunnel is built en route between Liverpool and Manchester in England.
The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
Aniline is first isolated from the destructive distillation of indigo by Otto Unverdorben.
Ludwig Van Beethoven composes the Grosse Fuge.
Mahmud II's council orders the janissaries to drill in the European manner.
Britain annexes Assam.

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)
April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757)
May 7 – Sophie Hagman, Swedish ballerina and royal mistress (b. 1758)
May 16 – Elisabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. 1779)
June 3 – Nikolay Karamzin, reformer of the Russian language (b. 1766)
June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
July 4
- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
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)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1826