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List of events
Events from the year 1826 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January 24 –
Treaty of Washington between the United States government and the
Creek National Council , in which they cede much of their land in the
State of Georgia .
February 6 – First printing of
James Fenimore Cooper 's novel
The Last of the Mohicans , in
Philadelphia .
February 13 – The
American Temperance Society is founded in
Boston .
March – Aged eight, future orator and memoirist
Frederick Douglass is lent by his master to the Aulds of
Fell's Point, Baltimore . He will remain their house servant, and later their regular slave, for 12 years until he escapes.
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April 1 –
Samuel Morey patents an
internal combustion engine .
July 4 – Ex-Presidents
Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
July 15 – The
Pan-American
Congress of Panama concludes without the U.S. delegates having arrived.
August – The town of
Crawford Notch ,
New Hampshire suffers a landslide; those killed include the Willey Family, after whom
Mount Willey is named.
September 3 – The
USS Vincennes , commanded by
William Finch , leaves
New York City to become the first U.S. warship to circumnavigate the globe.
September –
William Morgan (anti-Mason) of
Batavia, New York , disappears mysteriously. It is highly likely he was murdered by freemasons.
October 7 – The first train operates over the
Granite Railway in
Massachusetts .
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December 21 –
Fredonian Rebellion : American settlers in
Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Fredonia, which will survive for just over a month.
December 25 – The
Eggnog Riot breaks out at the
United States Military Academy in
West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.
Sing Sing prison first opened on the
Hudson River .
Births
January 5 –
Samuel L. M. Barlow I , lawyer (died
1889 )
January 26 –
Julia Grant , born Julia Boggs Dent,
First Lady as wife of
Ulysses S. Grant , 18th president of the U.S. (died
1902 )
January 27 –
Richard Taylor ,
Confederate general (died
1879 )
February 9 –
John A. Logan , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1871 to 1877 (died
1886 )
February 16 –
James Calder , 5th president of the
Pennsylvania State University (died
1893 )
February 22 –
Samuel J. R. McMillan , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1875 to 1887 (died
1897 )
March 4 –
Theodore Judah , railroad engineer (died
1863 )
April 9 –
Francis B. Stockbridge , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894 (died
1894 )
April 26
May 4 –
Frederic Edwin Church , painter (died
1900 )
May 7 –
Varina Davis , wife of
Jefferson Davis , First Lady of the
Confederate States of America (died
1906 )
July 4 –
Stephen Foster ,
[4] songwriter (died
1864 )
August 16 –
Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge , wife of
John C. Breckinridge ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1907 )
September 1 –
Alfred Ely Beach , inventor and publisher (died
1896 )
September 4 –
Willard Warner , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1871 (died
1906 )
September 18 –
Celia M. Burleigh , women's rights activist and Unitarian pastor (died
1875 )
October 7 –
William B. Bate , 23rd Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1887 to 1905 (died
1905 )
October 20 –
James Z. George , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1881 to 1897 (died
1897 )
October 31 –
Joseph Roswell Hawley , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1881 to 1905 (died
1905 )
December 3 –
George B. McClellan , soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician (died
1885 )
December 7 –
Edmund G. Ross , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871 (died
1907 )
Deaths
January 24 –
Henry H. Chambers , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1825 to 1826 (born
1790 )
February 7 –
Thomas Todd , Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1807 to 1826 (born
1765 )
July 4
July 8 –
Luther Martin , delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (born
1746 )
July 18 –
Issac Shelby , first and fifth Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and 1812 to 1816 (born
1750 )
August 26 –
Royall Tyler , playwright (born
1757 )
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