1826

Years: 1823 1824 1825 - 1826 - 1827 1828 1829

Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1826 in art 1826 in literature 1826 in science 1826 in music 1826 in sports List of state leaders in 1826 List of religious leaders in 1826

Events

• February 11 - University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
• April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
• June 14-15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul
• July 26 - Last auto de fe.
• September 3 - The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.

• First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
• Cholera epidemic begins in India
• Argentina becomes a federation

Births

• January 12 - William Chapman Rawlston, banker and financier
• January 26 - Louis Favre, engineer Gotthard tunnel (d. 1879)
• February 16 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, poet (d. 1886)
• February 16 - Julia Grant, First Lady, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (d. 1902)
• March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, journalist and politician (d. 1900)
• May 3 - King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway
• May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, painter
• July 4 - Stephen Foster songwriter and poet, (d. 1864)
• November 13 - Charles Frederick Worth couturier (d. 1895)
• November 24 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio

Deaths

• March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
• July 4 - Thomas Jefferson.
• July 4 - John Adams
• July 8 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
• November 23 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer