A Regency Era Timeline 1826 in progress (See July 4th Entry)

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorealing Kindersley book.

I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1826:

AMERICAN HISTORY BUFFS SHOULD LOOK AT THE JULY 4TH ENTRY!!!!

Year

Month Day

Event



1826

Jan 26

Julia Dent Grant, First Lady and wife of Ulysses Grant, was born.



1826

Feb 2

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (b.1755), French lawyer and epicure, died. “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” His famous work, Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), was published in December 1825, two months before his death.



1826

Feb 11

London University was founded.



1826

Feb 13

The American Temperance Society formed in Boston.



1826

Feb 16

Franz von Holstein, composer, was born.



1826

Mar 4

The Granite Railway in Quincy, MA, became the 1st US RR to be chartered.



1826

Mar 21

Beethoven’s Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna.



1826

Apr 1

Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.



1826

Apr 6

Gustave Moreau, French painter, was born.



1826

Apr 9

Chatham Roberdeau Wheat was born in Alexandria, Va. He studied law at the University of Nashville and then served in the 1st Tennessee Cavalry as a lieutenant during the Mexican War. He became a Confederate commander of the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion in the Civil War, also known as Wheat’s Tigers.



1826

Apr 12

Karl Maria von Weber’s opera “Oberon,” premiered in London.



1826

Apr 13

Franz Danzi (62), composer, died.



1826

Apr 22

Ibrahim, son of Mohammed Ali of Egypt, took Missolonghi (in West Greece) after a long siege. [see Apr 23]



1826

Apr 23

Missolonghi (in west Greece) fell to Egyptian-Turkish forces. [see Apr 22]



1826

Apr 28

Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, was born.



1826

May 4

Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), was born.



1826

May 7

Varina Howell Davis (d.1905), 1st lady (Confederacy), was born.



1826

May 10

Giuseppe Sigismondo (86), composer, died.



1826

May 25

Christian Friedrich Ruppe (72), composer, died.



1826

May 29

Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern), was born.



1826

Jun 4

Karl Maria FE von Weber (39), German composer (Oberon), died.



1826

Jul 4

Stephen Foster (Stephen Collins Foster, d. Jan 13, 1864) composer, was born near Pittsburgh. His famous songs include “My Old Kentucky Home,” “O Susanna,” “Old Folks at Home,” “Old Black Joe” and “Camptown Races.”



1826

Jul 4

Construction of the Pennsylvania Grand Canal was begun.



1826

Jul 4

Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, died at age 83 at one o’clock in the afternoon and was buried near Charlottesville, Virginia. He was the founder of the Univ. of Virginia and wrote the state’s statute of religious freedom. In 1981 Dumas Malone, aged 89 and nearly blind, published “The Sage of Monticello,” the sixth and final volume of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jefferson. In 1997 Joseph J. Ellis won the National Book Award in nonfiction for “American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.” “Nothing gives one person so much of an advantage over another as to remain unruffled in all circumstances.”



1826

Jul 4

John Adams died at age 90 in Braintree [Quincy], Mass, just a few hours after Jefferson. Because communications was slow in those days, Adams and Jefferson, at their death, thought the other was still alive. Adams’ last words were, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” It was 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Adams was the 2nd president of the US. A multi-generational biography of the Adams family was later written by Paul C. Nagel: “Descent from Glory.” The Joseph Ellis book The Passionate Edge” helped restore Adams to his rightful place in the American pantheon. The 1972 musical film 1776 focused on Adams’ efforts to get an independence resolution through Congress. In 1998 C. Bradley Thompson published “John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty.” In 2001 David McCullough authored “John Adams.” In 2005 James Grant authored “John Adams: Party of One.”



1826

Jul 4

In 2001 Andrew Burstein authored “America’s Jubilee,” a description of the jubilee year as it was experienced by various people.



1826

Jul 8

Luther Martin (b.1748), Maryland lawyer and former delegate to the Constitutional Convention, died in NYC. In 2008 Bill Kaufman authored “Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin.”



1826

Jul 22

Giuseppe Piazzi (80), monk, mathematician (found 1st asteroid, 1801), died.



1826

Jul 26

Riots in Vilnius, Lithuanian, caused the death of many Jews.



1826

Aug 7

Marc Brunel hired his son, Isambard, to replace William Armstrong as chief engineer for building the tunnel under England’s Thames River.



1826

Aug 13

Major Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer, became the 1st European to enter Timbuktu (Mali), where some 12,000 people lived. Laing was killed by a Tuareg nomad spear on Sep 26 as he headed for Morocco. In 2005 Frank T. Kryza authored “The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold.”



1826

Aug 22

Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith moved near Salt Lake Utah.



1826

Sep 3

USS Vincennes left NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe.



1826

Sep 26

The Persian cavalry was routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.



1826

Oct 7

The first railway in the United States opened at Quincy, Massachusetts.



1826

Nov 24

Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio, was born.



1826

Nov 27

Jedediah Smith’s expedition reached San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the south-western part of the continent. He crossed the Mohave Desert and the San Bernadino Mountains from Utah.



1826

Dec 3

George Brinton McClellen (d.1885), Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president, was born.



1826

Dec 26

Franz Coenen, composer, was born.



1826



New York in the US opens its first high school for girls; however it won’t stay open long.



1826



Russia and Persia are at war.



1826



The British Lying-in Hospital establishes courses for “monthly nurses”, which are women who will nurse mothers during their lying-in period but may not deliver their children.



1826



The first monthly children’s magazine is founded by Lydia Maria Francis, called Juvenile Miscellany, but will be out of circulation by 1833.



1826



Turkey captures Missolonghi from the Greeks.



1826-1842



Brunel builds the first subaqueous tunnel, under the Thames.



1826



In Spain the Inquisition had been ended by the Revolution in 1820 that had overthrown King Ferdinand VII, but with Ferdinand’s return it is revived.  A Jew is burned at the stake, also a Spanish Quaker schoolmaster who replaced “Hail Mary” with “Praise be to God” in school prayer. It is to be the last of such executions.



1826



Theophile Bra, French academic sculptor, experienced a nervous breakdown and began to make visionary paintings.



1826



Corot painted “Cascade of Terni.” “Its flat light, monumentalizing simplicity and minimal content anticipated Courbet, Manet and Cezanne.”



1826



The Erie Canal, 387 miles long and completed in 1826, connected Lake Erie, at Buffalo, to the Hudson River at Albany, New York. Begun in 1817 through the determined efforts of New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, the canal, which utilized light packet boats drawn by horses, reduced the passenger schedule between Buffalo and Albany from the 10 days required by stage service to three-and-a-half days. The canal brought many settlers to the Mohawk Valley and formed a great highway for freight from the Northwest to the seaboard. [see 1825]



1826



David Farragut gathered youngsters from warships anchored in Hampton Roads and established America’s first floating Annapolis aboard the U.S.S. Alert.



1826



The Galerie Vero-Dodat (2, Rue de Bouloi), was built by two well-off charcutiers in Paris, France. Vero and Dodat spared no expense with the classical style interior that featured sculpted woodwork, ceiling frescoes, mosaic flooring, and brass ornament,



1826



Joseph Buchner refined willow bark in crystals that he named salicin, after salix, the Latin name for willow. [see aspirin in 1899]



1826



Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, German amateur astronomer, began a systematic program of observing the Sun from his home in Dessau. He kept careful records of sunspots over 17 years and in 1843 noted an 11-year cycle in their frequency.



1826



Scotsman Robert Stein invented the continuous still. It was later refined by Aeneas Coffey as the Coffey still.



1826



An American mechanic developed mold-blown glass.



1826



Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician and inventor of the stethoscope, died from tuberculosis.



1826



In Batavia Capt. William Morgan was kidnapped by brother Masons for divulging fraternity secrets. His body was never found. His book “Illustrations of Freemasonry” revealed some Mason secrets. His death inspired America’s 1st third party, the anti-Mason, who dominated western NY for almost a decade.



1826



In Argentina Bernardino Rivadavia (1780-1845) was chosen as the first president of the United Provinces of La Plata. He was forced to resign in 1827. His political opponents called him the “Chocolate Dictator.”



1826



Englishmen scientist James Smithson (1765-1829) drew up his will and named his nephew as beneficiary. In the will he stated that should his nephew die without heirs, the estate should go to the US of America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institute, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.



1826



Pilkington, a British glass producer, was founded in St. Helens, Lancashire. In 2006 it was bought by Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG).



1826



The British Cape Colony was extended northward to the Orange River.



1826



John James Audubon (1785-1851), painter and ornithologist, arrived in Britain to oversee the production of his “Birds of America.” Although the 1st engravings were done in Edinburgh the project was soon transferred to London and completed over the next 12 years.



1826



Audubon read a technical paper before the Natural History Society of Edinburgh entitled: “Account of the habits of the turkey buzzard, particularly with the view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary power of smelling.” [see K.E. Stager in 1964]



1826



In Egypt Jean-Francois Champollion, French Egyptologist and decipherer of the Rosetta Stone, began collecting Egyptian artifacts. He convinced Charles X to purchase the private collections of the French and English consuls in Egypt.



1826



In Mexico Plutarco Elias Calles, founder of the modern Mexican political system, tried to suppress the Church. This fomented the Cristiada, 3 years of rebellion and outright war.



1826



Dom Pedro IV, emperor of Brazil, attained the Portuguese throne.



1826



In Scotland the first exhibition of Clydesdale horses for show occurred at the Glasgow Exhibition. The horses had been bred for hauling coal.



1826



Methodist missionaries arrived at Tonga from Australia.



1826-1828



1826-1828    Corot was in Italy and painted “View of St. Peter’s and the Castel Sant’Angelo.”



1826-1829



1826-1829    Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842), French explorer and naturalist, sailed around the Pacific Ocean.



1826-1833



1826-1833    In NYC the Hawk and Buzzard newspaper subsisted largely on gossip.



1826-1852



1826-1852    The Duke of Wellington served as Constable of the Tower of London.



1826-1877



1826-1877     Walter Bagehot, English editor and economist: “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.” “It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptation.”



1826-1887



1826-1887    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English novelist. “The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.”



1826-1908



1826-1908    Henry Clifton Sorby, English geologist, invented a method for making thin rock slices for microscopic investigation.