What is 1826?
{{Year nav|1826}} {{Year in various calendars|1826}} {{Year article header|1826}} == Events == * The first [[photograph]] was taken. * [[John Adams]] second president, and third president [[Thomas Jefferson]] both died same day [[Independence Day]]. == Births == * [[January 12]] – [[William Chapman Rawlston]], banker and financier * [[January 26]] – [[Louis Favre]], Swiss engineer (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 [[feminism|feminist]] (d. [[1898]]) * [[March 29]] – [[Wilhelm Liebknecht]], German journalist and politician (d. [[1900]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (d. [[1898]]) * [[May 3]] – King [[Charles XV of Sweden]] and Norway (d. [[1872]]) * [[May 4]] – [[Frederic Edwin Church]], American painter (b. [[1900]]) * [[June 24]] – [[George Goyder]], [[Surveyor-General]] of [[South Australia]] (d. [[1898]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Stephen Foster]], American songwriter and poet (d. [[1864]]) * [[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]]) == Deaths == * [[July 4]] – [[John Adams]], [[President (United States)|President of the United States]] * [[July 4]] – [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[President (United States)|President of the United States]] == Books == *''[[Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color]]'' – [[Abigail Mott]] *''[[The Broken Heart]]'' – [[Catherine Gore]] *''[[Cinq-Mars]]'' – [[Alfred de Vigny]] *''[[Deeds of the Olden Time]]'' – [[Anne Hatton]] *''[[Gaston de Blondeville]]'' – [[Ann Radcliffe]] *''[[Granby (novel)|Granby]]'' – [[T.H. Lister]] *''[[Die Harzreise]]'' (''The Heart's Journey'') – [[Heinrich Heine]] *''[[Henry