1826
From dKosopedia
Events
- Maryland passes "Jewish Bill of Emancipation."
- Captain Samuel Morey of Oxford, New Hampshire receives patent for two cylinder internal-combustion engine.
- Bavarian Philip Franz von Siebold uncovers the 18 year old maps of Japanese explorer Mamiya Rinzo and re-discovers that Sakhalin is an island and not a peninsula.
- American Temperance Society is founded.
Timeline
- February-April: While in medical school at the University of Edinburgh Charles Darwin is taught taxidermy by John Edmonstone, a freed African slave from Guyana.
- July 4: John Adams dies in Braintree, Massachusetts.
- July 4: Thomas Jefferson dies at Monticello.
