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January 15: Le Figaro begins publication. 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1826th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
826th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 26th year of the 19th century,
and the 7th year of the 1820s decade. As of
the start of 1826, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 15 – The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication
in Paris, initially as a weekly. ·
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. ·
University
College London is founded, under the name University
of London. ·
Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri,
an important text within Swaminarayan
Hinduism. ·
February 13 – The American
Temperance Society is founded. ·
February 24 – The Treaty of Yandabo ends the First
Anglo-Burmese War; Britain gains Assam, Manipur, Rakhine and Tanintharyi.[1] ·
March 1 – Chunee the elephant is put to
death in London. After arsenic and shooting fail, he
is killed with a sword.[2] ·
March 10 – João VI,
King of Portugal and the former Emperor of Brazil, dies after a short illness
that had started six days earlier, after he had been served dinner while
visiting Jerónimos Monastery. An investigative autopsy
174 years later will discover that he had been killed by arsenic poisoning. King João's son,
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil,
sails back to Portugal and briefly reigns as King Pedro IV, before turning
over the Portuguese throne to his daughter, Maria. April–June[edit] ·
April 1 – Samuel Morey patents an internal
combustion engine. ·
April 10 – The Third Siege of
Missolonghi ends, with the massacre of thousands of Greek
defenders by the Ottoman besiegers. ·
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 21 – Greek War of
Independence: The attempted Ottoman–Egyptian
invasion of Mani begins. ·
June 22 – The Pan-American Congress of Panama tries
(unsuccessfully) to unify the republics of the Americas. July–September[edit] ·
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 – Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die, on the 50th
anniversary of the signing of the United
States Declaration of Independence. ·
July 26 – The last auto-da-fé is
held in Valencia. ·
August – The town of Crawford Notch, New Hampshire suffers a landslide;
those killed include the Willey Family, after whom Mount Willey is named. ·
August 10 – The first Cowes Regatta is held on the Isle of Wight, in the U.K.[3] ·
August 18 – Explorer Alexander Gordon
Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.[4] ·
September 21 – Construction of
the Rideau Canal begins
in Canada. October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – The Monkland
and Kirkintilloch Railway opens in Scotland.[5] ·
October 7 – The first train operates
over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.[6][7] ·
November 3 – The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse.[8][9] ·
December 16 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides
into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of
the Republic of Fredonia. ·
December 21 – Fredonian Rebellion:
American settlers in Mexican Texas make the first attempt to
secede from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Fredonia, which will survive
for just over a month. ·
The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United
States Military Academy in West Point, New York during
the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service. ·
Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound,
to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a
settlement near Albany.
The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 Date unknown[edit] ·
The
first railway tunnel is built en route
between Liverpool and Manchester, in England. ·
The
British East India Company 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. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Russian statesman, general (d. 1888) ·
January 12 – William Chapman
Ralston, American banker, financier (d. 1875) ·
January 15 – Marie Pasteur, French chemist (d. 1910) ·
January 26 – Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879) ·
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889) ·
Richard Taylor,
American Confederate general (d. 1879) ·
January 30 – Robert F. R. Lewis,
American naval officer (d. 1881) ·
February 7 – James Edward Jouett, American admiral (d. 1902) ·
February 9 – John A. Logan, American soldier, political
leader (d. 1886) ·
February 15 – George Johnstone
Stoney, Anglo-Irish physicist (d. 1911) ·
Hans
Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Danish
chemist (d. 1909) ·
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 3 – Joseph Wharton, American industrialist
(d. 1909) ·
March 4 ·
John Buford, American general (d. 1863) ·
Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer
(d. 1863) ·
March 24 – Matilda Joslyn Gage,
pioneering American feminist (d. 1898) ·
March 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht,
German journalist, politician (d. 1900) ·
April 3 – Cyrus K. Holliday,
cofounder of Topeka, Kansas,
first president of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (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) ·
May 7 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate
States of America (d. 1906) ·
May 24 – Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin, Swiss national,
international women's rights activist, pacifist (d. 1899) ·
May 26 – Richard
Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (d. 1875) ·
May 28 – Benjamin Gratz Brown,
American politician (d. 1885) ·
June 23 – Louis Babel, Canadian priest (d. 1912) ·
June 24 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898) ·
June 26 – Warren F. Daniell, American politician (d. 1913) ·
June 29 – Robert
Christie, Canadian politician (d. 1914) ·
June 30 – Ozra Amander Hadley,
American politician (d. 1915) July–December[edit]
·
July 4 ·
Stephen Foster, American songwriter, poet
(d. 1864) ·
Green Clay Smith, American
temperance movement leader (d. 1895) ·
July 8 – Benjamin Grierson,
American music teacher (d. 1911) ·
July 31 – William S. Clark, American chemist, 3rd
President of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College (d. 1886) ·
August 7 – Samuel McLean,
American congressman (d. 1877) ·
August 11 – Andrew Jackson Davis,
American cobbler (d. 1910) ·
August 21 – Karl Gegenbaur,
German anatomist, professor (d. 1903) ·
September 8 – Sir James
Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1891) ·
September 17 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician
(d. 1866) ·
October 8 – Emily Blackwell, American physician
(d. 1910) ·
November 13 – Charles Frederick
Worth, English couturier (d. 1895) ·
November 24 – Carlo Collodi,
Italian writer (d. 1890) ·
November 27 – Jonathan Young,
United States Navy commodore (d. 1885) ·
December 3 – George B. McClellan,
American general, politician (d. 1885) Date unknown[edit] ·
William
Daniel (politician), American
temperance movement leader (d. 1897) ·
Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zulu
king (d. 1884) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 3 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770) ·
Marie Le Masson
Le Golft, French naturalist (b. 1750) ·
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, royal
mistress (b. 1758) ·
May 16 – Empress
Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of
Russia (b. 1779) ·
May 16 – Joseph Holt,
1798 United Irish rebel general (b. 1756) ·
June 3 – Nikolay Karamzin, reformer of the Russian language
(b. 1766) ·
June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber,
German composer (b. 1786) ·
June 7 – Joseph von
Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787) July–December[edit] ·
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,
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) ·
August 13 – René Laennec, French physician (b. 1781) ·
August 15 – Hanne Tott, Danish
circus artist, manager (b. 1771) ·
November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747) ·
December 11 – Queen-Empress
Maria Leopoldina, consort of Pedro IV of Portugal
& I of Brazil (b. 1797) References[edit] 1.
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^ Awdry, Christopher
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