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UK-related events during the year of 1826
Events from the year 1826 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
30 January – the
Menai Suspension Bridge , built by engineer
Thomas Telford , is opened between the island of
Anglesey and the mainland of
Wales .
[1]
11 February –
University College London is founded, under the name University of London .
15 February –
Longstone Lighthouse first illuminated as Outer
Farne Lighthouse (Joseph Nelson, engineer).
[2]
24 February –
Treaty of Yandabo cedes
Arakan peninsula to Britain, ending the
First Anglo-Burmese War .
[3]
1 March – male
Indian elephant
Chunee , which was brought to London in 1811, is killed at a menagerie on
The Strand after running amok the week before, killing one of his keepers. After arsenic and shooting fail, the animal is stabbed to death.
[4]
24–26 April –
power-loom riots in the Lancashire textile districts: hand-
loom weavers protest at the introduction of the
power loom in
Accrington ,
Blackburn and, finally,
Chatterton , where troops fire on the mob, killing at least four.
[5]
April – a number of leading scientists form the
Zoological Society of London .
5 May – the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway , designed by
George Stephenson and
Joseph Locke , and which in 1830 is to become the world's first purpose-built passenger
railway operated by
steam locomotives to be opened, is authorised by
Parliament .
[6]
26 May –
Country Bankers Act 1826 permits
joint-stock banks outside the London area, which may issue
banknotes .
1 June–31 August – a three-month heat wave and drought grips the country. With a mean temperature of 17.60 °C (63.68 °F) this is the hottest summer on the
CET records , since 1659, until
1976 , after which it is the second hottest.
[7]
19 June –
Tories under
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win a substantial increased majority over the
Whigs in the
general election .
20 June –
Burney Treaty increases British control over
south-east Asia .
[3]
1 July – the
Conway Suspension Bridge , built by engineer
Thomas Telford , is opened in
North Wales , completing his improvements to the
Holyhead road.
[1]
10 August – the first
Cowes Regatta is held on the
Isle of Wight .
[8]
18 August – Scottish explorer
Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach
Timbuktu ,
[9] but is murdered there on 26 September.
1 October – the
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway opens in Scotland.
[10]
18 October – last English state lottery is drawn in a series run since 1769;
[11] the next
National Lottery will be in
1994 .
Ongoing events
Undated
Publications
Births
24 January –
Gifford Palgrave , priest, traveller and Arabist (died 1888)
3 February –
Walter Bagehot , economist and journalist (died 1877)
15 February –
George Johnstone Stoney , Irish-born physicist (died 1911)
20 April –
Dinah Craik , née Mulock, novelist and poet (died 1887)
15 or 25 May –
Tom Sayers ,
bare-knuckle boxer (died 1865)
26 May –
Richard Carrington , astronomer (died 1875)
18 June –
William Maclagan ,
Archbishop of York (died 1910)
24 June –
George Goyder , surveyor-general of
South Australia (died 1898)
7 July –
John Fowler , agricultural engineer (died 1864)
20 July –
Laura Keene , actress (died 1873)
25 August –
William Synge , diplomat and author (died 1891)
5 September –
John Wisden , cricketer, creator of
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (died 1884)
8 September –
Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet , politician (died 1891)
24 September –
George Price Boyce , Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (died 1897)
23 December –
William Blanchard Jerrold , journalist and biographer (died 1884)
Deaths
6 January –
John Farey Sr. , polymath (born 1766)
17 February –
John Manners-Sutton , politician (born 1752)
7 March –
Ann Freeman , Bible preacher (born 1797)
10 March –
John Pinkerton , antiquarian (born 1758)
3 April –
Reginald Heber , bishop, poet and travel writer (born 1783)
19 April –
John Milner , Roman Catholic bishop and religious controversialist (born 1752)
23 June –
John Taylor , Unitarian hymn writer (born 1750)
5 July –
Sir Stamford Raffles , colonial governor, founder of
Singapore (born 1781)
2 August –
George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea , cricketer (born 1752)
26 August –
Lady Sarah Lennox , courtier (born 1745)
4 September –
Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford , lawyer, judge and politician (born 1779)
26 September –
Alexander Gordon Laing , Scottish explorer (born 1794)
26 November –
John Nichols , printer and author (born 1745)
7 December –
John Flaxman , sculptor (born 1755)
31 December –
William Gifford , satirist (born 1756)
References
^
a
b
Rolt, L. T. C. (1958).
Thomas Telford . London: Longmans, Green.
^
London Gazette issue 18217, 4 February 1826 p.244.
^
a
b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 254–255.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Grigson, Caroline (2016). Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England . Oxford University Press.
^ Aspin, Chris (1995). The First industrial Society: Lancashire 1750–1850 . Preston: Carnegie Publishing. pp. 63–70.
ISBN
9781859360163 .
^ Carlson, Robert E. (1969). The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831 . Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
ISBN
0-7153-4646-6 .
^
"metoffice.com" . Archived from
the original on 6 April 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2020 .
^
"Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840" . Archived from
the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
ISBN
1-85260-049-7 .
^
"Lottery Office records" . The National Archives. Retrieved 18 October 2023 .