1826

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This page is about the year 1826. For the board game, see 1826.

The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826

1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

Events

• 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 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
• 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.
• 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 26 - Last auto de fe.

• 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

• 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)
• January 27 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
• February 16 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)
• February 16 - 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)
• July 4 - 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)

Exact month/day of birth 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)
• June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
• July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
• July 4 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
• July 5 - Thomas 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)