1826

1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1826th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 826th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1826, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1826 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1826 MDCCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2579
Armenian calendar	1275 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6576
Balinese saka calendar	1747–1748
Bengali calendar	1233
Berber calendar	2776
British Regnal year	6 Geo. 4 – 7 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar	2370
Burmese calendar	1188
Byzantine calendar	7334–7335
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4522 or 4462     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4523 or 4463
Coptic calendar	1542–1543
Discordian calendar	2992
Ethiopian calendar	1818–1819
Hebrew calendar	5586–5587
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1882–1883
- Shaka Samvat	1747–1748
- Kali Yuga	4926–4927
Holocene calendar	11826
Igbo calendar	826–827
Iranian calendar	1204–1205
Islamic calendar	1241–1242
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 9 (文政９年)
Javanese calendar	1753–1754
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4159
Minguo calendar	86 before ROC 民前86年
Nanakshahi calendar	358
Thai solar calendar	2368–2369
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 1952 or 1571 or 799     — to — མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 1953 or 1572 or 800

Events

• The first photograph was taken.

• John Adams second president, and third president Thomas Jefferson both died same day Independence Day.

Births

• January 12 – William Chapman Rawlston, banker and financier
• January 26 – Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
• February 16 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886)
• February 16 – Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
• 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)
• May 3 – King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872)
• May 4 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (b. 1900)
• June 24 – George Goyder, Surveyor-General of South Australia (d. 1898)
• July 4 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter and poet (d. 1864)
• 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)

Deaths

• July 4 – John Adams, 90, second President of the United States, heart failure (b. 1735)
• July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, 83, third President of the United States, uremia (b. 1743)

Books

• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color – Abigail Mott
• The Broken Heart – Catherine Gore
• Cinq-Mars – Alfred de Vigny
• Deeds of the Olden Time – Anne Hatton
• Gaston de Blondeville – Ann Radcliffe
• Granby – T.H. Lister
• Die Harzreise (The Heart's Journey) – Heinrich Heine
• Henry the Fourth of France – Alicia Lefanu
• Honor O'Hara – Anna Maria Porter
• The Last Man – Mary Shelley
• The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
• Tales Round a Winter Hearth – Jane Porter & Anna Maria Porter
• Vivian Grey – Benjamin Disraeli
• Woodstock – Sir Walter Scott