1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

• February 11 - University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
• April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
• June 14-15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul
• July 26 - Last auto de fe.
• September 3 - The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch , leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.

• Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph
• First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
• Cholera epidemic begins in India
• Argentina becomes a federation
• The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.

Births

• January 12 - William Chapman Rawlston , banker and financier
• January 26 - Louis Favre , engineer Gotthard tunnel (d. 1879)
• February 16 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, poet (d. 1886)
• February 16 - Julia Grant, First Lady, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (d. 1902)
• March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, journalist and politician (d. 1900)
• May 3 - King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway
• May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, painter
• July 4 - Stephen Foster songwriter and poet, (d. 1864)
• November 13 - Charles Frederick Worth couturier (d. 1895)
• November 24 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio

Deaths

• January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer
• March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
• July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, Third US President
• July 4 - John Adams, Second US President
• July 8 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
• November 23 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer