1826 Calendar
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1826 Historical Event(s)
February 11, 1826
– University College London is founded under the name University of London.
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.
June 21, 1826
– Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
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.
October 7, 1826
– The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
November 25, 1826
– The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
December 1, 1826
– French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
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.
Who Were Born On 1826?
January 26, 1826
– Julia Dent-Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
January 27, 1826
– Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
April 6, 1826
– Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
April 8, 1826
– Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
May 5, 1826
– Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
May 7, 1826
– Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
June 24, 1826
– George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
July 4, 1826
– Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
July 24, 1826
– Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)