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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1823 1824 1825 - 1826 - 1827 1828 1829

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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).

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

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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

**1826 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1826 MDCCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2579
Armenian calendar	1275 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ
Bah' calendar	-18 – -17
Buddhist calendar	2370
Chinese calendar	4462/4522-7-20 (乙酉年七月二十日) — to — 4463/4523-6-29 (丙戌年六月廿九日)
Coptic calendar	1542 – 1543
Ethiopian calendar	1818 – 1819
Hebrew calendar	5586 – 5587
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1881 – 1882
- Shaka Samvat	1748 – 1749
- Kali Yuga	4927 – 4928
Holocene calendar	11826
Iranian calendar	1204 – 1205
Islamic calendar	1241 – 1242
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 0 (文政0年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2486 (皇紀2486年)
Julian calendar	1871
Korean calendar	4159
Thai solar calendar	2369
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January - June

January 12 - William Chapman Ralston, banker and financier (d. 1875)
January 26 - Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
January 27
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
February 16
Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)
James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University
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
Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet (d. 1864)
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
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
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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Upper Paleolithic

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The 18th Century lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.

Historians sometimes specifically define the 18th Century otherwise for the purposes of their work.
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The 19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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twentieth century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar. Some historians consider the era from about 1914 to 1991 to be the Short Twentieth Century.
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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s
1790 1791 1792 1793 1794
1795 1796 1797 1798 1799

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French Revolution (1789 - 1799).

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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1800 1801 1802 1803 1804
1805 1806 1807 1808 1809

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s
1810 1811 1812 1813 1814
1815 1816 1817 1818 1819

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End of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe (1803 - 1815).

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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1820 1821 1822 1823 1824
1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

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1850 1851 1852 1853 1854
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See also: 1825 in Australia, other events of 1826, 1827 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of New South Wales- Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling

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See also: 1825 in Canada, other events of 1826, 1827 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

June 8 - A mob of the ruling party, the Family Compact, destroy the Colonial Advocate's press at York.

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See also: 1825 in South Africa, other events of 1826, 1827 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

Events

Governor Charles Somerset leaves the Cape Colony under a cloud of bad feelings
Adam Kok II establishes Philippolis

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Events

January 24 - Treaty of Washington between the United States government and the Creek National Council, in which they cede much of their land in the State of Georgia
September 3 - The USS Vincennes

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