1826

Events from the year 1826 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: John Quincy Adams (DR-MA)
* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (DR-SC)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John W. Taylor (DR-NY)
* Congress: 19th
==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.
* February 13 – The American Temperance Society is founded in Boston.
* March 1 – 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 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson 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 1 – 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 1 – William Morgan 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.
* 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.
* December 31 – Sing Sing prison first opened on the Hudson River.
==Memoriam==
* January 24 – Henry H. Chambers, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1825 to 1826 (aged 35; Kenbridge, VA, USA)
* February 7 – Thomas Todd, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1807 to 1826 (aged 61; Frankfort, KY, USA)
* July 4
** John Adams, 2nd President of the United States from 1797 to 1801, 1st Vice President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 (aged 90; Quincy, MA, USA)
** Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809, 2nd Vice President of the United States from 1797 to 1801 (aged 83; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* July 8 – Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 18 – Isaac Shelby, 1st and 5th Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and 1812 to 1816 (aged 75; Lincoln County, KY, USA)
* August 26 – Royall Tyler, playwright (aged 69; Brattleboro, VT, USA)
==External links==
* 1826 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5