* 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 )

* 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.

* 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.

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* January 30, 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

On the island of Anglesey a new embankment across the Stanley Sands to Holyhead was constructed, but the crossing of the Menai Strait was the most formidable challenge, overcome by the Menai Suspension Bridge ( 1819 – 1826 ).

* Menai Suspension Bridge ( 1826 )

Telford's road was complete with the opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge in 1826.

* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge over the Menai Strait, in Wales, designed by Thomas Telford, is completed.

It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford.

The opening of the Menai Bridge in 1826, a mile ( 1. 6 km ) to the east of where Britannia Bridge was later built, provided the first fixed road link between Anglesey and the mainland.

* Conwy Suspension Bridge ( 1826 )

Conwy Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford to replace the ferry, was completed in 1826 and spans the River Conwy next to the castle.

The bridge can be seen at close quarters from Thomas Telford's adjacent 1826 Conwy Suspension Bridge.

Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.

* Mythe Bridge ( 1826 )

He was the builder of the " third Lyman Bridge " from Monroe to McIndoes, Vermont, in 1833, after the 1826 floods had taken out all bridges on the Connecticut River.

Cleveland Bridge was built in 1826 by William Hazledine, owner of the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, with Henry Goodridge as the architect, on the site of a Roman ferry crossing.

The Bridge at Narni, 1826.

* The Bridge at Narni ( 1826 ), Musée du Louvre

From 1826 to 1852, the road from Trumbull to Stevenson was chartered as a turnpike and called the Monroe and Zoar Bridge Turnpike.

Just to the west of the town is Thomas Telford's impressive Mythe Bridge over the River Severn, a cast-iron structure with a 170-foot span, opened in 1826.

The strait is bridged in two places-the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular Bridge.

When London Bridge was replaced in 1826, Usborne bought pieces of the stone balustrades, which date to 1209, and erected them behind the White House around the Buffalo Lawn.

Bridge of Narni over the Nera River, Italy | Nera River, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1826.

Nevertheless, about 1826 he was entrusted with the construction of the Grosvenor Bridge ( Chester ) over the Dee at Chester, from the designs of Harrison.