Year 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1826 The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 [edit] Undated [edit] Births - January 12 – William Chapman Ralston, banker and financier (d. 1875)
- January 26 – Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
- January 27
- February 16
- 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
- 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)
- December 3 – George B. McClellan, American general (d. 1885)
- date unknown – William Daniel, American temperance movement leader (d. 1897)
[edit] Deaths - January 3 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- January 17 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
- March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
- April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757)
- May 7 – Sophie Hagman, Swedish ballerina and royal mistress (b. 1758)
- May 16 – Elisabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Alexander I (b. 1779)
- June 3 – Nikolay Karamzin, reformer of the Russian language (b. 1766)
- June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- July 4
- July 5 – Stamford Raffles, British colonial governor and founder of Singapore (b. 1781)
- July 8 – Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. 1746)
- July 22 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
- November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
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