1826


 * For the game, see: .

Year 1826 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day-slower ).

January - March

 * - The, built by engineer , is opened between the island of and the mainland of.
 * - . Unitarian becomes the first President of the country.
 * - is founded, under the name University of London.
 * - founded.

April - June

 * - patents the.
 * - abdicates as King of Portugal.
 * - : makes a true photograph.
 * - – :, of , crushes the last mutiny of  in.
 * - the  tries (unsuccessfully) to unify  republics.

July - September

 * Early -  put the finishing touches on the, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
 * - both and  died.
 * - Last .

October - December

 * none

Undated

 * First built in route between  and  in
 * begins in
 * The British of the  is established.

January - June

 * -, banker and financier (d. )
 * -, Swiss engineer (d. )
 * , Russian writer (d. )
 * , American Confederate general (d. )
 * , German poet (d. )
 * , 5th President of the
 * , (d. )
 * -, railroad engineer (d. )
 * -, pioneering (d. )
 * -, German journalist and politician (d. )
 * -, French painter (d. )
 * -, American general (d. )
 * - King and Norway (d. )
 * -, American painter (d. )
 * -, surveyor-general of (d. )
 * -, American painter (d. )
 * -, surveyor-general of (d. )

July - December

 * , American songwriter and poet (d. )
 * , American leader (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * -, English couturier (d. )
 * -, Italian writer (d. )
 * date unknown -, American leader (d. )
 * date unknown -, American leader (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, French marshal (b. )
 * -, Spanish composer (b. )
 * -, German poet (b. )
 * -, Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. )
 * -, German composer (b. )

July - December

 * , 3rd (b. )
 * , 2nd (b. )
 * -, British colonial governor and founder of (b. )
 * -, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. )
 * -, Italian astronomer (b. )
 * -, German astronomer (b. )
 * -, German astronomer (b. )


 * See also .