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Everything about 1826 totally explained » For the game, see: 1826 (board game).
Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1826
Undated
First railway tunnel built in route between Liverpool and Manchester in England
The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established.
Aniline was first isolated from the destructive distillation of indigo by Otto Unverdorben
Ludwig Van Beethoven composes the Grosse Fuge.
Births
January 12 - William Chapman Ralston, banker and financier (d. 1875)
January 26 - Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
January 27
February 16
March 4 - Theodore Judah, railroad engineer (d. 1863)
March 24 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, pioneering feminist (d. 1898)
March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
April 6 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
April 26 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
May 3 - King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872)
May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
June 24 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
July 4
September 17 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
November 13 - Charles Frederick Worth, English couturier (d. 1895)
November 24 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (d. 1890)
date unknown - William Daniel, American temperance movement leader (d. 1897)
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Deaths
January 3 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
January 17 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
March 29 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
May 16 - Elisabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. 1779)
June 5 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
July 4
July 5 - Stamford Raffles, British colonial governor and founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
July 8 - Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. 1746)
July 22 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
November 23 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
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