| in?=
| cp=18th century
| c=19th century
| cf=20th century
| yp1=1823
| yp2=1824
| yp3=1825
| year=1826
| ya1=1827
| ya2=1828
| ya3=1829
| dp3=1790s
| dp2=1800s
| dp1=1810s
| d=1820s
| dn1=1830s
| dn2=1840s
| dn3=1850s
}}
1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
Events
Births
- January 12 - William Chapman Ralston , banker and financier (d. 1875 )
- January 26 - Louis Favre , Swiss engineer (d. 1879 )
- January 27 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian writer (d. 1889 )
- January 27 - Richard Taylor , American Confederate general (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 )
- April 26 - George Hull Ward , American general (d. 1863 )
- May 3 - King Charles XV Of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872 )
- May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church , American painter (d. 1900 )
- June 24 - George Goyder , surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898 )
- July 4 - Stephen Foster , American songwriter and poet (d. 1864 )
- July 4 - Green Clay Smith , American Temperance Movement leader (d. 1895 )
- 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 )
Exact month/day of birth unknown
William Daniel , American Temperance Movement leader (d. 1897 )
Deaths
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