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:''For the game, see: ''1826 (board game).
Year '1826' ('MDCCCXXVI') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1826

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1826

January - March

★ January 30 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

★ February 8 - Argentina. Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first President of the country.

★ February 11 - University College London is founded, under the name ''University of London''.

★ February 13 - American Temperance Society founded.

April - June

★ April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

★ May 28 - Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as King of Portugal.

★ June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph.

★ June 14-15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.

★ June 22 - the Pan-American Congress of Panama tries (unsuccessfully) to unify American republics.

July - September

★ Early July - Ludwig van Beethoven put the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.

★ July 26 - Last ''auto de fe''.

October - December

★ none

Undated

★ First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England

★ Cholera epidemic begins in India

★ The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.

Births

January - June

★ January 12 - William Chapman Ralston, banker and financier (d. 1875)

★ January 26 - Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)

★ January 27

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★ Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)

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★ Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)

★ February 16

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★ Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)

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★ James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University

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★ Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)

★ March 4 - Theodore Judah, railroad engineer (d. 1863)

★ March 24 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, pioneering feminist (d. 1898)

★ March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)

★ April 6 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)

★ April 26 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)

★ May 3 - King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872)

★ May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)

★ June 24 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)

July - December

★ July 4

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★ Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet (d. 1864)

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★ Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader (d. 1895)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown'' - William Daniel, American temperance movement leader (d. 1897)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 3 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)

★ January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)

★ March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)

★ May 16 - Elisabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. 1779)

★ June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)

July - December

★ July 4

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★ Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)

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★ John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)

★ July 5 - Stamford Raffles, British colonial governor and founder of Singapore (b. 1781)

★ July 8 - Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. 1746)

★ July 22 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)

★ November 23 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
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