1826
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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.
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- 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
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)
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