Today in History for Year 1826

Months in Year 1826: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 28 of 28

Jan 1st - Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
Jan 30th - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
Feb 11th - London University founded
Feb 13th - American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
Feb 24th - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
Feb 28th - M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
Mar 4th - 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
Mar 14th - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
Mar 21st - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
Apr 1st - Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
Apr 10th - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
Apr 12th - Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London
Apr 23rd - Missolonghi captured by Turks
May 22nd - The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
Jun 10th - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
Jun 20th - Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty
Jun 21st - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
Jul 26th - Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
Jul 30th - Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
Aug 19th - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
Aug 22nd - Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
Aug 24th - Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
Sep 3rd - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
Oct 7th - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
Nov 15th - Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
Nov 25th - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
Nov 27th - John Walker invents friction match in England
Dec 16th - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 99 of 99

Jan 6th - Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Jan 12th - Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Jan 15th - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
Jan 22nd - [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Jan 25th - Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
Jan 26th - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)
Jan 27th - Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Feb 3rd - Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
Feb 4th - Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Feb 9th - John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Feb 15th - George J Stoney, Irish physicist
Feb 16th - Franz von Holstein, composer
Feb 16th - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus)
Mar 1st - John Thomas, composer
Mar 4th - John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Mar 4th - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
Mar 9th - Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer
Mar 12th - Robert Lowry, composer
Mar 14th - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
Mar 17th - Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder)
Mar 20th - Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor
Mar 23rd - Leon Minkus, composer
Mar 29th - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic)
Apr 2nd - Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Apr 4th - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
Apr 6th - Gustave Moreau, French painter
Apr 7th - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
Apr 8th - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
Apr 9th - Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Apr 20th - Dina M Craik, writer
Apr 26th - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
Apr 26th - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
Apr 28th - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
May 3rd - Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
May 4th - Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
May 5th - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France
May 7th - Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
May 21st - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
May 22nd - George Parr, cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt)
May 29th - Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
Jun 1st - Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
Jun 1st - Hermann Zopff, composer
Jun 5th - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
Jun 6th - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
Jun 16th - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
Jun 24th - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
Jul 4th - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Jul 4th - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
Jul 8th - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 8th - Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 10th - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
Jul 11th - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
Jul 13th - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
Jul 21st - James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 24th - Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
Jul 24th - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
Aug 2nd - William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
Aug 6th - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
Aug 7th - Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
Aug 13th - William Thomas Best, composer
Aug 21st - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
Aug 26th - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
Aug 27th - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Aug 27th - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
Aug 28th - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
Sep 4th - Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
Sep 5th - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
Sep 8th - Disma Fumagalli, composer
Sep 9th - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
Sep 9th - Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
Sep 17th - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
Oct 7th - William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
Oct 8th - Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
Oct 13th - Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Oct 16th - Piotr Studzinski, composer
Oct 22nd - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
Oct 31st - Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Nov 2nd - Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Nov 2nd - William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Nov 3rd - Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Nov 13th - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
Nov 17th - John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Nov 23rd - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao
Nov 24th - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio)
Nov 30th - George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Dec 1st - William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Dec 3rd - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist
Dec 3rd - George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
Dec 5th - John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904
Dec 8th - Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
Dec 18th - Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
Dec 18th - Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
Dec 21st - Ernst Pauer, composer
Dec 22nd - James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
Dec 24th - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer
Dec 26th - Franz Coenen, composer
Dec 26th - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale)
Dec 28th - Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens)
Dec 31st - Henry Hiles, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 3rd - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
Jan 17th - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
Feb 13th - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
Feb 25th - Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
Mar 1st - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
Mar 10th - Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
Mar 11th - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
Mar 27th - Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
Apr 3rd - Reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer, dies
Apr 13th - Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62
May 10th - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86
May 24th - Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37
May 25th - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer, dies at 72
Jun 1st - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
Jun 3rd - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
Jun 4th - Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39
Jun 5th - Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39
Jun 7th - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
Jul 4th - John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
US President Thomas Jefferson (Jul 4th) Jul 4th - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
Jul 5th - Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore dies at 44 of apoplexy
Jul 7th - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
Jul 8th - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
Jul 11th - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer, dies at 57
Jul 17th - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
Jul 22nd - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
Jul 24th - Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
Jul 25th - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
Jul 25th - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
Jul 26th - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82
Aug 13th - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
Aug 30th - Theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67
Sep 22nd - J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66
Oct 3rd - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies
Nov 17th - Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47
Nov 22nd - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65
Dec 7th - John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
Dec 10th - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer, dies at 68
Dec 15th - William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC