1826

1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

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.

• Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph
• First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
• Cholera epidemic begins in India
• Argentina becomes a federation
• The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.

Births

• January 12 – William Chapman Rawlston, banker and financier
• January 26 – Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (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 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
• April 6 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
• May 3 – King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872)
• May 4 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (b. 1900)
• July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet (d. 1864)
• 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)

Deaths

• January 17 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
• March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
• 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 8 – Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. 1746)
• November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)