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==Events==
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* January 15 – The French newspaper ''[[Le Figaro]]'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
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* February 13 – The [[American Temperance Society]] is founded.
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* February 24 – The [[Treaty of Yandabo]] ends the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]]; Britain gains [[Assam]], Manipur, [[Rakhine State|Rakhine]] and [[Tanintharyi]].
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* March 10 – [[João VI of Portugal|João VI]], King of Portugal and the former Emperor of Brazil, dies after a short illness that had started six days earlier, after he had been served dinner while visiting [[Jerónimos Monastery]].  An investigative autopsy 174 years later will discover that he had been killed by [[arsenic]] poisoning.  King João's son, Emperor [[Pedro I of Brazil]], sails back to Portugal and briefly reigns as King Pedro IV, before turning over the Portuguese throne to his daughter, [[Maria II of Portugal|Maria]].
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* April 1 – [[Samuel Morey]] patents an [[internal combustion engine]].
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* April 10 – The [[Third Siege of Missolonghi]] ends, with the massacre of thousands of Greek defenders by the Ottoman besiegers.
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* May 28 – [[Pedro I of Brazil]] abdicates as King of Portugal.
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* June 14–[[June 15|15]] – The [[Auspicious Incident]]: [[Mahmud II]], [[sultan]] of [[Ottoman Empire]], crushes the last mutiny of [[janissaries]] in [[Istanbul]].
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* July 26 – [[Cayetano Ripoll]] became the last person to be executed by the [[Spanish Inquisition]] at its last ''[[auto-da-fé]]'', held in [[Valencia]].
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* September – [[William Morgan (anti-Mason)]] disappears mysteriously. It is highly likely he was murdered by freemasons.
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* November 3 – The [[Euronext Paris|Paris Stock Exchange]] opens at the [[Paris Bourse|''Palais de la Bourse'']].
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* The first railway tunnel is built en route between [[Liverpool]] and [[Manchester]], in England.
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* The British [[East India Company]] colony of the [[Straits Settlements]] is established.
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* [[Aniline]] is first isolated from the destructive distillation of [[indigo]], by [[Otto Unverdorben]].
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* [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] composes the ''[[Große Fuge]]''.
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* [[Mahmud II]]'s council orders the [[janissaries]] to drill in the European manner.
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Latest revision as of 22:46, 28 February 2021

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Decade.png 1820s: )    Year.png 1826 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Retrato de D. João VI, Rei de Portugal.jpg
João VI, King of Portugal (in 1802)
year 1826

Events

Date unknown



 

Event

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
Le FigaroGroup.pngFrench newspaper owned by the armaments manufacturer Dassault Group since 2004.
Case Western Reserve UniversityCase Western Reserve University seal.pngPrivate UniversityImportant research university with significant government ties
Furman UniversityFurman U Seal.pngMilitary ranksDesegregated in 1963

 

A Death

TitleBornDiedSummary
Thomas Jefferson13 April 17434 July 1826Politician
Businessperson

 

A Birth

TitleBornDied
Thomas Baring22 January 182615 November 1904
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