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1826 Calendar

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•  January 30, 1826 – 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, 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
•  February 24, 1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
•  April 1, 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
•  April 10, 1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year’s siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
•  May 22, 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
•  July 4, 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
•  December 16, 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
•  December 21, 1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
•  December 24, 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.

•  March 4, 1826 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
•  March 23, 1826 – Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)
•  March 24, 1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist and suffragette (d. 1898)
•  April 20, 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
•  April 26, 1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
•  July 24, 1826 – Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
•  September 5, 1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
•  September 17, 1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
•  November 13, 1826 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
•  December 3, 1826 – George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)