Important Historical Events of the year 1826, Year 1826 in History

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List of 1826 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1826

What happened in the year 1826?

Date	Event
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 as University of London.
February 24, 1826	The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
March 13, 1826	Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
April 10, 1826	The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
April 29, 1826	The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.[8]
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	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, respectively the second and third presidents of the United States, die on the same day, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Adams' last words were, "Thomas Jefferson survives," not knowing that Jefferson had died hours earlier.
August 18, 1826	Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
September 11, 1826	Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance.
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 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.