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- For the game, see: 1826.
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 - March[]
- 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 - June[]
The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826
- 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.
July - September[]
- 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 4 - both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died.
- July 26 - Last auto de fe.
October - December[]
- none
Undated[]
- First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
- Cholera epidemic begins in India
- The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
Births[]
| Gregorian calendar | 1826 MDCCCXXVI
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| Ab urbe condita | 2579 |
| Armenian calendar | 1275 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -18 – -17 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2370 |
| Coptic calendar | 1542 – 1543 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1818 – 1819 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5586 – 5587 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1881 – 1882 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1748 – 1749 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4927 – 4928 |
| Holocene calendar | 11826 |
| Iranian calendar | 1204 – 1205 |
| Islamic calendar | 1241 – 1242 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2486 (皇紀2486年) |
| Julian calendar | 1871 |
| Korean calendar | 4159 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2369 |
January - June[]
- 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 - December[]
- 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)
- See also 1826 births.
Deaths[]
January - June[]
- 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, Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. 1779)
- June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
July - December[]
- 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)
People of the year 1826 at Familypedia
252 people were born in 1826
156 children were born to the 117 women born in 1826
140 people died in 1826
12748 people lived in 1826
Events of the year 1826 at Familypedia
204 people were married in 1826.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| Cornelia Ariens Abbenes (1795-1858) | Jacob Klaasz Been (1793-1824)+Jan Pietersz Schagen (c1783-1828)+Johannes Simonsz Bakker (c1799-1858) |
| Nancy Wayman Adair (1805-1877) | John Jewel Ramage (1801-1844) |
| Henricus Nicolaas Adama van Scheltema (1786-1870) | Madelaine Petronelle Perrenoud (1785-1816)+Cornelia Jacobus Scheltema (1792-1823)+Tetje Telting (1794-1866) |
| William Aldridge (1787-1863) | Agnes Hume (1796-1825) + Elizabeth Van Blaricum (1809-1838) + Sophia Coleman (1792-1860) |
| Albern Allen (1802-1867) | Marcia Allen (1804-1866)+ Mary Ann Hoopes (1811-1903) + Mary Jane Morris (1819-1893) + Jane Elizabeth Hill (1841-1909) |
| Marcia Allen (1804-1866) | Albern Allen (1802-1867) |
| Jonathan Amory (1802-1885) | Letitia Austin (1807-1875) |
| Jemima Angell (1804-1869) | Valentine W. Young (c1800-1843) + William Stringham + Brigham Young (1801-1877) |
| Nathaniel Ashby (1805-1846) | Susan Hammond (1808-1851) |
| Edwin Baldwin (1805-1868) | Alice Clark (1810-1863)+Christiana Farlow (1811-1878) |
| Jerusha Barden (1805-1837) | Hyrum Smith (1800-1844) |
| Mary Beck (1804-1841) | David Evans (1804-1883) |
| Horace Bigelow (1793-1871) | Charlotte Williams (1806-1828)+Julia Ann Porter (1809-1887) |
| Nahum Bigelow (1785-1851) | Mary Gibbs (1809-1888) |
| Lucius Augustus Bingham (1804-1852) | Sarah Stone (1805-1849) + Rebecca White (1818-1899) |
| ... further results | |
There were 0 military battles in 1826.
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