Historical Events In 1826

Mar 21   Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna on this day in history.  

Mar 23   Leon Minkus, composer in the year 1826.  

Mar 27   On this day in history jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63  

Mar 29   Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic) on this day in history.  

Apr 01   In the year 1826 samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine  

Apr 02   On this day in history philip Dale Roddey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897  

Apr 03   Financial panic hits New Brunswick as word spreads that banks in London had failed and the timber trade had collapsed; so-called Black Monday on this day in history.  

Apr 03   In the year 1826 reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer, dies  

Apr 06   Gustave Moreau, French painter on this day in history.  

Apr 07   On this day in history johann Hermann Berens, composer  

Apr 09   In the year 1826 thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885  

Apr 10   On this day in history the 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.  

Apr 12   Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London in the year 1826.  

Apr 13   Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62 in the year 1826.  

Apr 20   Dina M Craik, writer on this day in history.  

Apr 23   Missolonghi captured by Turks in the year 1826.  

Apr 28   Alexander Stadtfeld, composer on this day in history.  

May 03   On this day in history charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet  

May 04   On this day in history frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)  

May 05   On this day in history eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France  

May 07   In the year 1826 varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905  

May 10   Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.  

May 21   Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro on this day in history.  

May 22   On this day in history george Parr, cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt)  

May 22   In the year 1826 the HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.  

May 24   Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

May 25   On this day in history christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer, dies at 72  

May 29   Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern) in the year 1826.  

Jun 01   Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor on this day in history.  

Jun 04   On this day in history karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39  

Jun 05   Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39 on this day in history.  

Jun 05   On this day in history ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer  

Jun 06   In the year 1826 sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist  

Jun 10   In the year 1826 sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey  

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Jan 06   On this day in history birth of herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)  

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883  

Jan 15   Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen) was born in the year 1826.  

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876  

Jan 25   In the year 1826 birth of rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP  

Jan 26   Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 27   Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 was born in the year 1826.  

Feb 03   Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist was born in the year 1826.  

Jan 03   Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770) died on this day in history.  

Jan 17   On this day in history death of juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)  

Feb 13   In the year 1826 death of petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)  

Feb 25   In the year 1826 piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60  

Mar 01   J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

Mar 10   Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56 on this day in history.  

Mar 11   Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Mar 27   Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.