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1826| 1800–1850 | USA [consumer products] | A revolution in retail and wholesale trade occurs: specialization transforms the urban retail market, replacing the general store with individual stores for hardware, groceries, dry goods, furnishing, books, tobacco, and so on. Cash-only sales policies are instituted around 1806. | | 1810–1859 | USA [agriculture] | US cotton production, the vast majority of which is grown in the southern states, rises from 171,000 bales in 1810 to just under 5.4 million in 1859. | | 1819–1826 | UK [other structures] | Scottish engineer Thomas Telford constructs the 177 m/580 ft Menai suspension bridge over the Menai Straits between Bangor, Wales and the island of Anglesey. The first modern suspension bridge, it uses chains of wrought-iron links suspended from masonry towers at either end. Lacking stiffening girders it is vulnerable to high winds. | | 1821–1830 | USA, UK, Ireland [statistics and demography] | Emigration to the USA from Britain is 27,489, and from Ireland, 54,338. | | 1826 | France [biology] | French physiologist René Joachim Henri Dutrochet carries out the first quantitative experiments on osmosis – the passage of a solvent through a semipermeable membrane. | | 1826 | England [family planning] | The English radical thinker Richard Carlile writes Every Woman's Book, a birth control manual. | | 1826 | USA [fiction] | The US writer James Fenimore Cooper publishes his novel The Last of the Mohicans. | | 1826 | France [photography] | Using a camera obscura and an eight-hour exposure, French inventor Joseph Niépce takes a crude photograph of his barnyard from a window on his estate. It is the world's first photograph. He uses light-sensitive bitumen of Judea (a type of asphalt) to fix the image on a pewter plate. | | 24 February 1826 | Myanmar, UK [treaties] | By the Treaty of Yandabu, ending the Burmese War, the British gain Assam, Arakan, and Terasserim, while the Burmese pay an indemnity and come under British influence. | | 10 March 1826 | Portugal, Brazil [political events] | King John VI of Portugal dies and is succeeded by his son, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, as King Pedro IV. | | 4 July 1826 | USA [births and deaths] | Thomas Jefferson, third president of the USA 1801–09, a Democratic-Republican, dies in Monticello, Virginia (83). | | 7 October 1826 | Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, Serbia [political events] | The Akkerman Convention settles the problem of the Danubian provinces (Moldavia and Wallachia) and Serbia, with the Turks evacuating key fortresses and allowing Russia full access to the Dardanelles. |
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