1826 in History

Events in History

United States Declaration of Independence

Jul 4 Past presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President John Quincy Adams calls "visible and palpable remarks of Divine Favor"
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Jul 26 Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
Jul 30 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
Aug 19 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
Aug 22 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
Aug 24 Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Liege) opens
Sep 3 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
Oct 7 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
Nov 15 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
Nov 25 The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy
Nov 27 John Walker invents friction match in England
Dec 16 Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.

Birthdays in History

Jan 6 Herman Grimm, German writer & novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson), born in Kassel, Hesse (d. 1901)
Jan 12 Charles Cruft, American teacher, lawyer, railroad executive, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1883)
Jan 15 Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
Jan 22 [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), (d. 1876)
Jan 25 Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander van Boneval Faure, Dutch lawyer & politician, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1909)
Jan 26 Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)
Jan 27 Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
Feb 3 Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
Feb 4 Halbert Eleazer Paine, American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Chardon, Ohio (d. 1905)
Feb 9 John Alexander Logan, American political leader and Major General (Union Army), born in Murphysboro, Illinois (d. 1886)
Feb 15 George J Stoney, Irish physicist
Feb 16 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus)
Mar 4 John Buford, American Major General (Union Army), born in Woodford County, Kentucky (d. 1863)
Mar 4 Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
Mar 17 Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder)
Mar 20 Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor
Mar 29 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German socialist (Social Democratic Party), born in Giessen, Germany (d. 1900)
Apr 2 Philip Dale Roddey, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Moulton, Alabama (d. 1897)
Apr 4 Zénobe Gramme, Belgian electrical engineer (Gramme dynamo), born in Jehay-Bodegnée, Belgium (d. 1901)
Apr 6 Gustave Moreau, French painter
Apr 8 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
Apr 9 Thomas Hewson Neill, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1885)
Apr 20 Dinah Craik, English writer (John Halifax, Gentleman), born in Stoke-on-Trent (d. 1887)
Apr 26 George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
Apr 26 Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
May 3 Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1872)
May 4 Frederick Edwin Church, American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1900)
May 5 Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of France (1853-71), born in Granada, Kingdom of Spain (d. 1920)
May 7 Varina Howell Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States (1862-65), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1906)
May 21 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
May 29 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
Jun 6 Sarah Parker Remond, African-American abolitionist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1894)
Jun 16 Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
Jun 24 George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
Jul 4 Green Clay Smith, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Richmond, Kentucky (d. 1895)
Jul 8 Benjamin Henry Grierson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1911)
Jul 8 Robert Kingston Scott, American governor of South Carolina (1868-1872) and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (d. 1900)
Jul 11 Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and folklorist, born in Boguchar, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1871)
Jul 13 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
Jul 21 James Gillpatrick Blunt, American physician, abolitionist, and Major General (Union Army), born in Trenton, Maine (d. 1881)
Jul 24 Francisco Solano Lopez, President of Paraguay (1862-70), born in Asunción, Paraguay (d. 1870)
Aug 2 William Denison Whipple, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Madison County, New York (d. 1902)
Aug 6 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
Aug 7 Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
Aug 21 Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, born in Würzburg, Germany (d. 1903)
Aug 26 Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
Aug 27 Frank Stillman Nickerson, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Swanville, Maine (d. 1917)
Sep 4 Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer, born in Viby, Scania, Sweden (d. 1905)
Sep 9 Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
Sep 9 Thomas John Lucas, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dearborn County, Indiana (d. 1908)
Sep 17 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
Oct 7 William Brimage Bate, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) and 23rd Governor of Tennessee (1882-86)
Oct 8 Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Warren County, North Carolina (d. 1904)
Oct 13 Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Stafford, New York (d. 1868)
Oct 31 Hugh Boyle Ewing, American diplomat, author, attorney, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1905)
Nov 2 Robert Hopkins Hatton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1862)
Nov 2 William Haines Lytle, US politician, poet and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1863)
Nov 3 Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kingsville, Ohio (d. 1867)
Nov 13 Charles Frederick Worth, English fashion designer (House of Worth), born in Bourne, Lincolnshire (d. 1895)
Nov 17 John McArthur, Scottish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Erskine, Scotland (d. 1906)
Nov 24 Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio)
Nov 30 George Washington Deitzler, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania (d. 1884)
Dec 1 William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1895)

George McClellan

Dec 3 George McClellan, American Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1885)

Dec 5 John Benjamin Sanborn, American lawyer, politician, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Epsom, New Hampshire (d. 1904)
Dec 8 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
Dec 18 Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
Dec 18 Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), (d. 1906)
Dec 22 James Scott Negley, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
Dec 26 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch publisher (Van Dale) and founder (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1894)
Dec 28 Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens)

Weddings in History

Wedding of Interest

Feb 5 Future US President Millard Fillmore (26) weds Abigail Powers (27)

13th US President Millard Fillmore — 13th US President
Millard Fillmore

Wedding of Interest

Oct 17 Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)

Historian and Essayist Thomas Carlyle — Historian and Essayist
Thomas Carlyle

Deaths in History

Jan 3 Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
Feb 13 Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general, dies at 80
Feb 25 Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
Mar 1 Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect, dies at 59
Mar 10 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
Apr 3 Reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer, dies
Jun 1 Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
Jun 3 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
Jun 7 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)

John Adams

Jul 4 John Adams, 2nd US President (1797-1801), dies at 90

Thomas Jefferson

Jul 4 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States(1801-09), dies at 83

Stamford Raffles

Jul 5 Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore dies at 44 of apoplexy

Jul 8 Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
Jul 22 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (found 1st asteroid-Ceres), dies at 80
Jul 25 Pavel Ivanovich Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
Jul 25 Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
Aug 13 René Laënnec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, dies of tuberculosis at 46
Sep 22 Johann Peter Hebel, German writer (Allemannische Gedichte), dies at 66
Sep 25 Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Italian Geologist, dies at 54
Oct 3 Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies
Oct 25 Philippe Pinel, French physician (the father of modern psychiatry), dies at 81
Dec 7 John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
Dec 15 William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC

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