Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1826
Birthdays
- January 26 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
- January 27 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
- January 27 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
- February 3 - Walter Bagehot, British essayist
- February 16 - Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
- February 16 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)
- March 4 - John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
- March 4 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
- March 23 - Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)
- March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- April 4 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
- April 6 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
- April 8 - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
- April 20 - Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
- April 26 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
- April 26 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
- May 3 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
- May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
- May 5 - Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
- June 16 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
- June 24 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
- July 4 - Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
- July 11 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
- July 24 - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
- August 6 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
- August 21 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
- August 26 - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, (d. 1875)
- September 4 - Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
- September 5 - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
- September 17 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
- November 13 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
- November 24 - Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
- December 3 - George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)
Deaths
- January 3 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
- February 13 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
- March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
- April 13 - Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
- June 1 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
- June 3 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
- June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- June 7 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
- July 4 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- July 4 - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States, (b. 1743)
- July 8 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
- July 22 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
- July 25 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
- August 13 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
- October 25 - Philippe Pinel, French psychiatrist (b. 1745)
Events
- January 24 - Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.
- January 30 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
- February 11 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.
- February 24 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
- April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- April 10 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
- May 22 - The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- June 21 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- October 7 - Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
- November 25 - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
- December 1 - French philhellene Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
- December 16 - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
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