In history, year 1826 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1826.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1826:
Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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30 january | The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridge, opened. |
11 february | University College London was founded as the first secular university in England. |
11 february | Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses thatserves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism. |
24 february | The Treaty of Yandabo was signed, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in the history of the British Raj. |
22 may | HMS Beagle departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for ahydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions ofSouth America. |
30 may | Udant Martand (The Rising Sun) was the first Hindi-language newspaper published in India. Started on May 30, 1826 from Calcutta (now Kolkata), the weekly newspaper, was published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla. |
21 june | Greek War of Independence-A combined Egyptian and Ottoman army began their invasion of the Mani Peninsula, but they were initially held off by the Maniots at the fortifications of h |
21 december | American settlers in Mexican Texas made the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the short-lived Republic of Fredonia. |
30 May | The publication of the first Hindi newspaper Udanta Martand started |
15 January | The French newspaper "Le Figaro" began publication in Paris as a weekly newspaper. |
08 February | Greekist Bernardino Rivadavia became the first President of Argentina |
14 March | The General Congress of South American States met in Panama. |
01 April | Samuel Mori patented an internal combustion engine. |
28 May | Pedro-I of Brazil relinquished his post as King of Portugal. |
22 June | Panama's Pan-American Congress unsuccessfully tried to unite America's republics). |
26 July | Lithuania violence kills many Jews |
10 August | The first Causs Reguta was held in the United Kingdom on the Isle of Wight. |
21 September | The construction of the Rideau Canal began in Canada. |
01 October | The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway inaugurated in Scotland. |
03 November | The Paris Stock Exchange opened on the Palais de la Bourse. |
16 December | Benjamin W. Edwards traveled to the Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declared himself the ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1826:
Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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03 December | George B. McClellan / Politician / United States of America |
03 April | Cyrus K. Holliday / Business Man / United States of America |
04 April | Zénobe Gramme / Engineer / Belgium |
04 March | John Buford / General / United States of America |
04 March | August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein / Linguist / Germany |
05 May | Eugénie de Montijo / Queen / France |
08 April | Pancha Carrasco / Soldier / Costa Rica |
08 March | Johann Köler / Academic / Estonia |
16 April | Sir James Corry / Politician / Britain |
16 February | Joseph Victor von Scheffel / Poet / Germany |
17 September | Bernhard Riemann / Academic / Germany |
19 October | Ralph Tollemache / Priest / United Kingdom |
21 June | Lord Dufferin / Governor General / Italy |
21 August | Karl Gegenbaur / Academic / Germany |
24 March | Matilda Joslyn Gage / Author / United States of America |
24 June | George Goyder / Surveyor / United Kingdom |
26 April | George Hull Ward / General / United States of America |
26 April | Ambrose R. Wright / Lawyer / United States of America |
27 January | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin / Journalist / Russia |
31 July | William S. Clark / Politician / United States of America |