1826

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 - 1826 - 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831

Events

• February 11 - London University is founded.
• April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
• 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.

Year in topic

• 1826 in literature
• 1826 in science

Births

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

Deaths

• July 4 - Thomas Jefferson.
• July 4 - John Adams

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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