Editing 1826 (section)

== Events ==
=== January–March ===
* [[January 15]] – The French newspaper ''[[Le Figaro]]'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly.
* [[January 17]] – The [[John Ballantyne (publisher)|Ballantyne]] printing business in [[Edinburgh]] (Scotland) crashes, ruining novelist Sir [[Walter Scott]] as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher, [[Archibald Constable]], also fails.<ref>{{Cite book|last=MacLeod|first=(Xavier) Donald|title=Life of Sir Walter Scott|publisher=Charles Scribner|location=New York|year=1852}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – In India, the [[Siege of Bharatpur (1825–1826)|Siege of Bharatpur]] ends in British victory as [[Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere|Lord Combermere]] and [[Michael Childers]] defeat the [[Bharatpur State|princely state of Bharatpur]], now part of the Indian state of [[Rajasthan]].{{cite book|first1=James|last1=Grant|title=British battles on land and sea|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924091765663|year=1885|page=575}} 
* [[January 30]] – The [[Menai Suspension Bridge]], built by engineer [[Thomas Telford]] as the first major suspension bridge in world history, is opened between the island of [[Anglesey]] and the mainland of [[Wales]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Menai Suspension Bridge |url=https://ice.org.uk/events/exhibitions/ice-bridge-engineering-exhibition/the-history-of-bridges/menai-suspension-bridge |publisher=Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) |access-date=20 July 2021 |language=en |date=18 November 2016}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] –  [[James Fenimore Cooper]]'s novel ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' is first printed, by a publisher in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-the-last-of-th/155763504/|title=Coopers New Novel This Day Is Published by H.C. Carey & I. Lea, corner of Fourth and Chestnut|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |page=2| date=February 4, 1826}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – Unitarian [[Bernardino Rivadavia]] becomes the first President of  the [[United Provinces of the Río de la Plata]], now [[Argentina]].
* [[February 11]]
** [[University College London]] is founded, under the name ''University of London''.
** [[Swaminarayan]] writes the ''[[Shikshapatri]]'', an important text within [[Swaminarayan Hinduism]].
* [[February 13]] – The [[American Temperance Society]] is founded.
* [[February 23]] – [[Russians|Russian]] [[mathematician]] [[Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky]] develops [[non-Euclidean geometry]] (independently of [[Janos Bolyai]]).
* [[February 24]] – The [[Treaty of Yandabo]] ends the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]]. Britain gains [[Assam]], Manipur, [[Rakhine State|Rakhine]] and [[Tanintharyi Region|Tanintharyi]].<ref>Kaushik Roy and Sourish Saha, ''Armed Forces and Insurgents in Modern Asia'' (Routledge, 2016)</ref>
* [[March 1]] – A male [[Indian elephant]], [[Chunee]], which was brought to London in 1811, is killed at a menagerie after running amok the week before, killing one of his keepers. After arsenic and shooting fail, the animal is stabbed to death.<ref>{{cite book|first=Caroline|last=Grigson|title=Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] – Ellen Turner, a wealthy 15-year-old heiress from [[Cheshire]] in England, is [[Shrigley abduction|kidnapped]] by [[Edward Gibbon Wakefield]]. On May 14, Wakefield, his brother and a servant are sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Wakefield later becomes politically active in the [[colonisation]] of New Zealand.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=David J. |title=A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839 |date=February 2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-43672-0 |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SmFsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Story: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1w4/wakefield-edward-gibbon |website=The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] – [[John VI of Portugal|Dom João VI]], King of Portugal and former Emperor of Brazil, dies six days after he had been served dinner while visiting [[Jerónimos Monastery]]. An investigative autopsy 174 years later will discover that he had been killed by [[arsenic]] poisoning. King João's, Emperor [[Pedro I of Brazil]], sails back to Portugal and briefly reigns as King Pedro IV of Portugal, before turning over the Portuguese throne to his daughter, [[Maria II of Portugal|Maria]].
* March – [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[String Quartet No. 13 (Beethoven)|String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130]] is first performed and is premiered by the [[Schuppanzigh Quartet]]. In its original form, the piece has  ''[[Grosse Fuge]]'' (later Op. 133) as the final movement.

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – In the U.S., [[Samuel Morey]] patents an [[internal combustion engine]].
* [[April 10]] – The [[Third Siege of Missolonghi]] ends and is followed by the massacre of thousands of Greek defenders by the Ottoman besiegers.
* [[May 5]] – The [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]], designed by [[George Stephenson]] and [[Joseph Locke]], destined to become the world's first purpose-built [[railway]] operated by [[steam locomotive]]s by 1830, is opened after receiving authorisation by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|author =Carlson, Robert E.|title=The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|year=1969|isbn=0-7153-4646-6}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] – The Emperor [[Pedro I of Brazil]] abdicates as King of Portugal.
* [[June 14]]–[[June 15|15]] – The [[Auspicious Incident]]: [[Mahmud II]], [[sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], crushes the last mutiny of [[janissaries]] in [[Istanbul]].
* [[June 20]] – The [[Burney Treaty]] is signed in Bangkok between the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Rattanakosin Kingdom]] of Siam, securing British power in [[southeast Asia]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – [[Greek War of Independence]]: The attempted [[Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani]] begins.
* [[June 22]] – The [[Pan-Americanism|Pan-American]] [[Congress of Panama]] is opened in [[Panama City]] by [[Simon Bolivar]] as an attempt to unify the republics of the Americas that had recently declared independence from Spain, or to at least make a federation to agree on a common defense policy and create a common military. The Congress lasts for 23 days without an agreement.<ref name=Reinhold>Frances L. Reinhold, "New research on the first pan-American congress held at Panama in 1826." ''Hispanic American Historical Review'' 18.3 (1938): 342-363 [https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-pdf/18/3/342/754002/0180342.pdf online]. </ref>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – Former U.S. Presidents [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[John Adams]] both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]].
* [[July 15]] – The [[Congress of Panama]] adjourns after 24 days without an agreement on creating a federation of Latin American nations.<ref name=Reinhold/>
* [[July 25]] (O.S.: July 13) – Five leaders of the [[Decembrist revolt]] of [[1825]] in Russia ([[Pyotr Kakhovsky]], [[Pavel Pestel]], poet [[Kondraty Ryleyev]], [[Sergey Muravyov-Apostol]] and [[Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin]]) are hanged in [[Senate Square (Saint Petersburg)|Senate Square, Saint Petersburg]], where they had launched their attempted coup d'etat. Other conspirators begin their journey into exile in [[Siberia]].
* [[July 26]] – [[Cayetano Ripoll]] becomes the last person to be executed by the [[Spanish Inquisition]] at its last ''[[auto-da-fé]]'', held in [[Valencia]].
* [[July]] – [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] puts the finishing touches on the [[String Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven)|String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131]], the jewel in the crown of [[Late string quartets (Beethoven)|his late string quartets]].
* [[August 10]] – The first [[Cowes Regatta]] is held on the [[Isle of Wight]], in the U.K.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 |title=Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840 |access-date=2007-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 |archive-date=September 22, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – Scottish explorer [[Alexander Gordon Laing]] becomes the first European to reach [[Timbuktu]]<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> but is murdered there on September 26.
* [[August 28]] – The town of [[Crawford Notch]], [[New Hampshire]] suffers a landslide; those killed include all seven members of the Willey Family, after whom [[Mount Willey]] is named.<ref>Stillman Rogers, ''It Happened in New Hampshire: Remarkable Events That Shaped History'' (Globe Pequot, 2012) pp.54-56</ref>
* [[September 13]] – [[William Morgan (anti-Mason)]] of [[Batavia, New York]], disappears mysteriously after being released from the jail in [[Canandaigua, New York|Canandaigua]] and agreeing to accompany his benefactor, a Mr. Loton Lawson.He is never seen in public again, and a number of witnesses will indicate later that on September 20, a man resembling Morgan was tied up and thrown into the [[Niagara River]] following a meeting of the Masonic Society.<ref>A. P. Bentley, ''History of the Abduction of William Morgan and the Anti-masonic Excitement of 1826-30, with Many Details and Incidents Never Before Published'' (Van Cise & Throop, 1874) pp.15-24.</ref>
* [[September 21]] – Construction of the [[Rideau Canal]] begins in Canada.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – The [[Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway]] opens in Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|author=Awdry, Christopher|year=1990|title=Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies|publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd|location=Wellingborough|isbn=1-85260-049-7}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] – The first train operates over the [[Granite Railway]] in [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia| url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/241709/Granite-Railway| title=Granite Railway| encyclopedia=Britannica Online Encyclopedia| access-date=2008-05-19}}</ref><ref name=Elks>{{cite web| url=http://catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnegr1.Html| title=The First Railroad in America| publisher=Granite City B.P.O.E. - Quincy Lodge No. 943| work=Catskill Archive| year=1924| access-date=2008-05-19}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] – The [[Euronext Paris|Paris Stock Exchange]] opens at the [[Paris Bourse|''Palais de la Bourse'']].<ref>Jacques Sirat, ''Braquenié: French Textiles and Interiors Since 1823'' (Antique Collectors Club Limited, 1998) p16</ref><ref>"The Bourse", in ''Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine'' (July 1858) p42</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Benjamin W. Edwards]] rides into Mexican-controlled [[Nacogdoches, Texas]], and declares himself ruler of the [[Republic of Fredonia]].
* [[December 21]] – American settlers in [[Mexican Texas]] begin the [[Fredonian Rebellion]], making the first attempt to secede from Mexico. The Republic of Fredoniawill survive for less than six weeks.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bates|first=W.B.|title=A Sketch History of Nacogdoches|journal=Southwestern Historical Quarterly|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101162/m1/519/|access-date=November 20, 2013|volume=59|issue=4|date=April 1956|page=494}}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** The [[Eggnog Riot]] breaks out at the [[United States Military Academy]] in [[West Point, New York]] during the early morning hours.
** Major [[Edmund Lockyer]] arrives at [[King George Sound]] to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near [[Albany, Western Australia|Albany]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The British [[East India Company]] colony of the [[Straits Settlements]] is established.
* [[Aniline]] is first isolated, from the [[destructive distillation]] of [[indigo]], by [[Otto Unverdorben]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Ueber das Verhalten der organischen Körper in höheren Temperaturen|first=O.|last=Unverdorben|journal=Annalen der Physik und Chemie|volume=8|pages=397–410}}</ref>
* [[Mahmud II]]'s council orders the [[janissaries]] to drill in the European manner.
* In France, [[Nicéphore Niépce]] makes the first [[photograph]], ''[[View from the Window at Le Gras]]''.
{{Year nav|1826}}[[File:View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, uncompressed UMN source.png|thumb|250px|The oldest-known surviving photograph in history, Niepce's ''[[View from the Window at Le Gras]]'']]