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 rail transport 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
• The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.

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

• January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer
• March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
• July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, Third US President
• July 4 - John Adams, Second US President
• July 8 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
• November 23 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer

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