1826

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1825 1826 1827

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.