1826 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1826?
- January 30, 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world’s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
- February 11, 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
- February 24, 1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
- April 1, 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- April 10, 1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year’s siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
- May 22, 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- June 21, 1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- July 4, 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- October 7, 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
- November 25, 1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
- December 1, 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
- December 16, 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
- December 21, 1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
- December 24, 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
- December 25, 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
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