- Jan 3 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
- Jan 19 Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
- Jan 25 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
Trail of Tears
Jan 27 US Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for the forced relocation of the Eastern Indian tribes via the "Trail of Tears"
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Election of Interest
Feb 9 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
John Quincy Adams
- Feb 12 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
- Feb 19 Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck" premieres in Vienna
- Feb 22 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
- Mar 4 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as the 6th US President
- Apr 10 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
- Apr 10 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon
- Apr 19 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
- May 20 Charles X becomes King of France
- May 25 American Unitarian Association founded
- Jun 4 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
- Jun 11 The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City
Event of Interest
Jun 19 Gioachino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres
Gioachino Rossini
- Jun 20 Coronation of Charles X, the last Bourbon King of France
- Jun 22 British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America
- Jul 21 Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
- Jul 30 Malden Island is discovered in the central Pacific by British warship HMS Blonde
- Aug 6 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
- Aug 14 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
- Aug 25 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
- Aug 29 Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil
Event of Interest
Sep 27 George Stephenson's "Locomotion No. 1" becomes the 1st steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England
George Stephenson
Event of Interest
Dec 6 US President John Adams suggests establishment of a national observatory
John Adams
- Dec 26 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December]