1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
| 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 |
| 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 | 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1952 or 1571 or 799 — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1953 or 1572 or 800 |
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Events
change- The first photograph was taken.
- John Adams second president, and third president Thomas Jefferson both died same day Independence Day.
Births
change- 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
change- 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
change- 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