1826

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Years:	1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

Template:C19YearInTopicX 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).

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.

Undated

• 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.

Births

1826 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1826 MDCCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2579
Armenian calendar	1275 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6576
Balinese saka calendar	1747–1748
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 (Wood Rooster) 4523 or 4316     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4524 or 4317
Coptic calendar	1542–1543
Discordian calendar	2992
Ethiopian calendar	1818–1819
Hebrew calendar	5586–5587
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1882–1883
- Shaka Samvat	1747–1748
- Kali Yuga	4926–4927
Holocene calendar	11826
Igbo calendar	826–827
Iranian calendar	1204–1205
Islamic calendar	1241–1242
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 9 (文政９年)
Javanese calendar	1753–1754
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4159
Minguo calendar	86 before ROC 民前86年
Nanakshahi calendar	358
Thai solar calendar	2368–2369
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1952 or 1571 or 799     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1953 or 1572 or 800

• 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)
• July 31 – William S. Clark, American chemist and 3rd President of the University of Massachusetts
• 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)
• December 3 – George B. McClellan, American general (d. 1885)
• 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)
• 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)