1826

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1823 1824 1825 – 1826 – 1827 1828 1829

Events

• The first photograph was taken.

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, President of the United States
  • Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States

New 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