* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.

* Haliotis roei Gray, 1826 – the Roe's abalone

* Haliotis squamosa Gray, 1826 – the squamose abalone

* 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist ( d. 1903 )

It has been edited by G. Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi ( Hanover and Berlin, 1826 – 1892 ).

* 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman ( b. 1826 )

Andreas Aagesen ( 5 August 1826 – 26 October 1879 ) was a Danish jurist.

* 1826 – The 10, 500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

* Achille Zo ( 1826 – 1901 ), painter

#*** Alexandrine Gertrude Zénaïde Bonaparte ( 1826 – 1828 )

** João VI ( 1816 – 1826 )

** Maria II ( 1826 – 1853 )

* Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.

* 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.

* 1760 – Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and music educator ( d. 1826 )

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.

Category: UK MPs 1820 – 1826

* 1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician ( d. 1826 )

* 1770 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal ( d. 1826 )

In 1826 Delvigne, a French infantry officer, invented a breech with abrupt shoulders on which a spherical bullet was rammed down until it caught the rifling grooves.

René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (; 17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826 ) was a French physician.

Europeans began to settle permanently in 1826 when Albany was claimed by Britain to forestall French claims to the western third of the continent.

** First Consul / Emperor Napoleon I ( First French Republic / First French Empire ) ** King D. João VI ( United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve ) ( 1792 – 1826 )

* April 18 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( b. 1826 )

* September 26 – Joseph Proust, French chemist ( d. 1826 )

* July 19 – Louis Favre, French engineer ( b. 1826 )

For this work he was presented in 1826 with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society ( which he won again in 1836 ), and with the Lalande Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, while in 1821 the Royal Society bestowed upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions.

From the earliest record for Nuku ' alofa, the early writer always refer to the settlement as Noogollefa ( 1797 ), Nioocalofa ( 1806 ), Nukualofa ( 1826 by Methodist ) and Noukou-Alofa ( 1842 by French Catholic Priest ).

In April 1826 the French explorer d ' Urville visited one of the sealers ’ camps on Phillip Island.

Gustave Moreau ( 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898 ) was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures.

In 1826, Delvigne, a French infantry officer, invented a breech with abrupt shoulders on which a spherical bullet was rammed down until it caught the rifling grooves.

Le Figaro () is a French daily newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris.

In 1869, Perkin found a method for the commercial production from anthracene of the brilliant red dye alizarin, which had been isolated and identified from madder root some forty years earlier in 1826 by the French chemist Pierre Robiquet, simultaneously with purpurin, another red dye of lesser industrial interest, but the German chemical company BASF patented the same process one day before he did.

In 1826, he was taken to a mental health hospital, but left without being cured – only stabilized by French alienist Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol – so that he could work again on his plan ( he would later attempt suicide in 1827 by jumping off the Pont des Arts ).

*-the second proof on 1826 in French

More ambitious and on a wider canvas are the historical or semi-historical novels, Dichterleben ( 1826 ), Der Aufruhr in den Cevennen ( 1826, unfinished ), Der Tod des Dichters ( 1834 ); Der junge Tischlermeister ( 1836 ; but begun in 1811 ) is an excellent story written under the influence of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ; Vittoria Accorombona ( 1840 ), the story of Vittoria Accoramboni written in the style of the French Romanticists, shows a falling-off.

Philippe Pinel ( 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826 ) was a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy.

William Henry Waddington ( 11 December 1826 – 13 January 1894 ) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France in 1879.