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June: The oldest-known surviving photograph in history is taken by Nicéphore Niépce

from Le Gras, his country estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes.

January 15: The French magazine Le Figaro begins publication.
1826 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1826
MDCCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita2579
Armenian calendar1275
ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ
Assyrian calendar6576
Balinese saka calendar1747–1748
Bengali calendar1233
Berber calendar2776
British Regnal yearGeo. 4 – 7 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar2370
Burmese calendar1188
Byzantine calendar7334–7335
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4523 or 4316
    — to —
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4524 or 4317
Coptic calendar1542–1543
Discordian calendar2992
Ethiopian calendar1818–1819
Hebrew calendar5586–5587
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1882–1883
 - Shaka Samvat1747–1748
 - Kali Yuga4926–4927
Holocene calendar11826
Igbo calendar826–827
Iranian calendar1204–1205
Islamic calendar1241–1242
Japanese calendarBunsei 9
(文政9年)
Javanese calendar1753–1754
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4159
Minguo calendar86 before ROC
民前86年
Nanakshahi calendar358
Thai solar calendar2368–2369
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
1952 or 1571 or 799
    — to —
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
1953 or 1572 or 800
July 4: On the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, John Adams (the second U.S. president) and Thomas Jefferson (the third U.S. president) die within hours of each other.

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.

Events

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January–March

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  • January 15 – The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly.
  • January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh (Scotland) crashes, ruining novelist Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher, Archibald Constable, also fails.[1]
  • January 18 – In India, the Siege of Bharatpur ends in British victory as Lord Combermere and Michael Childers defeat the princely state of Bharatpur, now part of the Indian state of Rajasthan.Grant, James (1885). British battles on land and sea. p. 575.
  • January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford as the first major suspension bridge in world history, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.[2]
  • February 6James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans is first printed, by a publisher in Philadelphia.[3]
  • February 8 – Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first President of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, now Argentina.
  • February 11
  • February 13 – The American Temperance Society is founded.
  • February 23Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky develops non-Euclidean geometry (independently of Janos Bolyai).
  • February 24 – The Treaty of Yandabo ends the First Anglo-Burmese War. Britain gains Assam, Manipur, Rakhine and Tanintharyi.[4]
  • March 1 – A male Indian elephant, Chunee, which was brought to London in 1811, is killed at a menagerie after running amok the week before, killing one of his keepers. After arsenic and shooting fail, the animal is stabbed to death.[5]
  • March 7 – Ellen Turner, a wealthy 15-year-old heiress from Cheshire in England, is kindapped by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. On May 14, Wakefield, his brother and a servant are sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Wakefield later becomes politically active in the colonisation of New Zealand.[6][7]
  • March 10Dom João VI, King of Portugal and former Emperor of Brazil, dies six days 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, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, sails back to Portugal and briefly reigns as King Pedro IV of Portugal, before turning over the Portuguese throne to his daughter, Maria.
  • March – Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130 is first performed and is premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet. In its original form, the piece has Grosse Fuge (later Op. 133) as the final movement.

April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–June

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Charles XV of Sweden

July–December

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August Ahlqvist
Bernhard Riemann
Carlo Collodi

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Carl Maria von Weber
Joseph von Fraunhofer

July–December

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References

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  1. ^ MacLeod, (Xavier) Donald (1852). Life of Sir Walter Scott. New York: Charles Scribner.
  2. ^ "Menai Suspension Bridge". Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). 18 November 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Coopers New Novel This Day Is Published by H.C. Carey & I. Lea, corner of Fourth and Chestnut". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 4, 1826. p. 2.
  4. ^ Kaushik Roy and Sourish Saha, Armed Forces and Insurgents in Modern Asia (Routledge, 2016)
  5. ^ Grigson, Caroline (2016). Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England. Oxford University Press.
  6. ^ Cox, David J. (February 2010). A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-317-43672-0.
  7. ^ "Story: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon". The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  8. ^ Carlson, Robert E. (1969). The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4646-6.
  9. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  10. ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Archived from the original on September 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
  11. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  12. ^ Stillman Rogers, It Happened in New Hampshire: Remarkable Events That Shaped History (Globe Pequot, 2012) pp.54-56
  13. ^ A. P. Bentley, History of the Abduction of William Morgan and the Anti-masonic Excitement of 1826-30, with Many Details and Incidents Never Before Published (Van Cise & Throop, 1874) pp.15-24.
  14. ^ Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-049-7.
  15. ^ "Granite Railway". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  16. ^ "The First Railroad in America". Catskill Archive. Granite City B.P.O.E. - Quincy Lodge No. 943. 1924. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  17. ^ Jacques Sirat, Braquenié: French Textiles and Interiors Since 1823 (Antique Collectors Club Limited, 1998) p16
  18. ^ "The Bourse", in Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine (July 1858) p42
  19. ^ Bates, W.B. (April 1956). "A Sketch History of Nacogdoches". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 59 (4). Texas State Historical Association: 494. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  20. ^ Unverdorben, O. "Ueber das Verhalten der organischen Körper in höheren Temperaturen". Annalen der Physik und Chemie. 8: 397–410.
  21. ^ Hughes, Derrick (1986). Bishop Sahib: A Life of Reginald Heber. Worthing, UK: Churchman Publishing. pp. 178–180. ISBN 978-1-85093-043-3.
  22. ^ H. K. Riikonen. "Ahlqvist, August (1826-1889)" (in Finnish). kansallisbiografia. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  23. ^ Public Domain Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "HAMBURGER, JACOB". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  24. ^ Martin, Russell L. (June 7, 1988). "Jefferson's Last Words". Monticello. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  25. ^ "BBC - History - John Adams". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2022.