Events from the year 1826 in the United States.
Incumbents
State governments
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.
- 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 11 – William Morgan is arrested in Batavia, New York, for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance.
- October 7 â The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.
- 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
- George Hull Ward, general (died 1863)
- Ambrose R. Wright, general, lawyer, and politician (died 1872)
- 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, 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
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