1826 - What happened in 1826 ?

January 1826

Sunday 01:

Naucalpan becomes a municipality of the Mexican state of México.

February 1826

Saturday 11:

University College London is founded under the name University of London.

Friday 24:

The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.

April 1826

Saturday 01:

Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

June 1826

Wednesday 21:

Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas

July 1826

Tuesday 04:

Fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, on which John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of America's Founding Fathers, died.

September 1826

Sunday 03:

The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.

October 1826

Saturday 07:

Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.