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January 15:
Le Figaro begins publication.
1826 (
MDCCCXXVI ) was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Friday of the
Julian calendar , the 1826th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 826th year of the
2nd millennium , the 26th year of the
19th century , and the 7th year of the
1820s decade. As of the start of 1826, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 15 – The French newspaper
Le Figaro begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly.
January 17 – The
Ballantyne printing business in
Edinburgh (Scotland) crashes, ruining novelist Sir
Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher
Archibald Constable also fails.
[1]
January 18 – The
Siege of Bharatpur ends in British victory.
January 30 – The
Menai Suspension Bridge , built by engineer
Thomas Telford , is opened between the island of
Anglesey and the mainland of
Wales .
February 6 – First printing of
James Fenimore Cooper 's novel
The Last of the Mohicans , in
Philadelphia .
February 8 – Unitarian
Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first President of
Argentina .
February 11
February 13 – The
American Temperance Society is founded.
February 23 –
Russian
mathematician
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky develops
non-Euclidean geometry (independently of
Janos Bolyai ).
February 24 – The
Treaty of Yandabo ends the
First Anglo-Burmese War ; Britain gains
Assam , Manipur,
Rakhine and
Tanintharyi .
[2]
March 1 – Male
Indian elephant
Chunee , which was brought to London in 1811, is killed at a menagerie after running amok the week before, killing one of his keepers. After arsenic and shooting fail, the animal is stabbed to death.
[3]
March 10 –
John VI (Dom João VI), King of Portugal and former Emperor of Brazil, dies after a short illness that had started six days earlier, after he had been served dinner while visiting
Jerónimos Monastery . An investigative autopsy 174 years later will discover that he had been killed by
arsenic poisoning. His son, Emperor
Pedro I of Brazil , sails back to Portugal and briefly reigns as King Pedro IV, before turning over the Portuguese throne to his daughter,
Maria .
March – Premiere of
Ludwig van Beethoven 's
String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130 in its original form with his
Grosse Fuge (later Op. 133) as the final movement, given by the
Schuppanzigh Quartet .
April–June
July–September
July –
Ludwig van Beethoven puts the finishing touches on the
String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131 , the jewel in the crown of
his late string quartets .
July 4 – Former U.S. Presidents
Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the
United States Declaration of Independence .
July 25 (O.S.: July 13) – Five leaders of the
Decembrist revolt of
1825 in Russia (
Pyotr Kakhovsky ,
Pavel Pestel , poet
Kondraty Ryleyev ,
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol and
Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin ) are hanged in
Senate Square, Saint Petersburg (where they had launched their attempted coup) and others begin their journey to exile in
Siberia .
July 26 –
Cayetano Ripoll becomes the last person to be executed by the
Spanish Inquisition at its last
auto-da-fé , held in
Valencia .
August – The town of
Crawford Notch ,
New Hampshire suffers a landslide; those killed include the Willey Family, after whom
Mount Willey is named.
August 10 – The first
Cowes Regatta is held on the
Isle of Wight , in the U.K.
[6]
August 18 – Scottish explorer
Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach
Timbuktu
[7] but is murdered there on September 26.
September 21 – Construction of the
Rideau Canal begins in Canada.
September –
William Morgan (anti-Mason) of
Batavia, New York , disappears mysteriously. It is highly likely he was murdered by freemasons.
October–December
The oldest surviving photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce
Date unknown
Births
January–June
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Charles XV of Sweden
January 1 –
Mikhail Loris-Melikov , Russian statesman, general (d.
1888 )
January 12 –
William Chapman Ralston , American banker, financier (d.
1875 )
January 15 –
Marie Pasteur , French chemist (d.
1910 )
January 24 –
William Daniel ,
American temperance movement leader (d.
1897 )
January 26 –
Louis Favre , Swiss engineer (d.
1879 )
January 27
January 30 –
Robert F. R. Lewis , American naval officer (d.
1881 )
February 3 –
Walter Bagehot , English economist and journalist (d.
1877 )
February 7 –
James Edward Jouett , American admiral (d.
1902 )
February 9 –
John A. Logan , American soldier, political leader (d.
1886 )
February 15 –
George Johnstone Stoney , Anglo-Irish physicist (d.
1911 )
February 16
March 3 –
Joseph Wharton , American industrialist (d.
1909 )
March 4
March 24 –
Matilda Joslyn Gage , American
feminist (d.
1898 )
March 29 –
Wilhelm Liebknecht , German journalist, politician (d.
1900 )
April 3
April 6 –
Gustave Moreau , French painter (d.
1898 )
May 3 – King
Charles XV of Sweden and
Norway (d.
1872 )
May 4 –
Frederic Edwin Church , American painter (d.
1900 )
May 7 –
Varina Davis ,
First Lady of the
Confederate States of America (d.
1906 )
May 8 –
Miguel Ângelo Lupi , Portuguese painter (d.
1883 )
May 24 –
Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin , Swiss international women's rights activist, pacifist (d.
1899 )
May 26 –
Richard Christopher Carrington , English astronomer (d.
1875 )
May 28 –
Benjamin Gratz Brown , American politician (d.
1885 )
June 24 –
George Goyder , surveyor-general of
South Australia (d.
1898 )
June 26 –
Warren F. Daniell , American politician (d.
1913 )
June 30 –
Ozra Amander Hadley , American politician (d.
1915 )
July–December
August Ahlqvist
Bernhard Riemann
Carlo Collodi
July 4
July 8 –
Benjamin Grierson , American Civil War general (d.
1911 )
July 31 –
William S. Clark , American chemist, 3rd President of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College (d.
1886 )
August 7 –
August Ahlqvist , Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the
Finno-Ugric languages , author, and literary critic (d.
1889 )
[15]
August 11 –
Andrew Jackson Davis , American spiritualist (d.
1910 )
August 21 –
Carl Gegenbaur , German anatomist, professor (d.
1903 )
September 8 –
Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet , British politician (d.
1891 )
September 17 –
Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician (d.
1866 )
October 8 –
Emily Blackwell , American physician (d.
1910 )
October 24 –
Léopold Victor Delisle , French
medievalist and Administrator General of the
Bibliotheque Nationale
November 24 –
Carlo Collodi , Italian writer (d.
1890 )
November 27 –
Jonathan Young , United States Navy commodore (d.
1885 )
December 3 –
George B. McClellan , American general, politician (d.
1885 )
December 8 –
John Brown , Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria (d.
1883 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
Carl Maria von Weber
Joseph von Fraunhofer
January 3
January 17 –
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga , Spanish composer (b.
1806 )
January 23 –
Abraham Woodhull , Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (b.
1750 )
February 17 –
John Manners-Sutton , British politician (b.
1752 )
March 10 – King
John VI of Portugal (b.
1767 )
March 29 –
Johann Heinrich Voss , German poet (b.
1751 )
April 11 –
Anton Walter , Austrian piano maker (b.
1752 )
April 25 –
Karl Ludwig von Phull , German military leader (b.
1757 )
May 4 –
Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan , Spanish colonial governor in Cuba (b.
1757 )
May 7 –
Sophie Hagman , Swedish ballerina, royal mistress (b.
1758 )
May 16
June 3 –
Nikolay Karamzin , Russian language reformer (b.
1766 )
June 5 –
Carl Maria von Weber , German composer (b.
1786 )
June 7 –
Joseph von Fraunhofer , German optician (b.
1787 )
July–December
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
July 4
July 5
July 8 –
Luther Martin , delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b.
1746 )
July 22 –
Giuseppe Piazzi , Italian astronomer (b.
1746 )
July 25 –
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol , Russian Army officer (b.
1796 )
July 26 –
James Winchester , American general and politician (b.
1752 )
August 2 –
George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea , English cricketer (b.
1752 )
August 13 –
René Laennec , French physician (b.
1781 )
August 15 –
Hanne Tott , Danish circus artist, manager (b.
1771 )
August 28 –
Józef Zajączek , Polish general, politician (b.
1752 )
September 7 –
Robert Wright (politician) , American politician (b.
1752 )
September 12 –
Eliphalet Pearson , American educator (b.
1752 )
October 8 –
Marie-Guillemine Benoist , French painter (b.
1768 )
October 25 –
Philippe Pinel , French physician (b.
1745 )
November 17 –
Caroline Müller , Danish opera singer (b.
1755 )
November 23 –
Johann Elert Bode , German astronomer (b.
1747 )
December 11 –
Queen-Empress Maria Leopoldina , consort of
Pedro IV of Portugal & I of Brazil (b.
1797 )
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