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| 1825 |
| | | A December uprising in St Petersburg ends when troops fire on the crowd, but the 'Decembrists' become revolutionary martyrs | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, inherits the throne of Portugal (as Pedro IV) but continues to rule from Brazil | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Bolívar attempts to create a pan-American gathering in the Congress of Panama | |
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| 1826 |
| | | 17-year-old Felix Mendelssohn composes an overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplifed with huge success eighteen years later | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon has its premiere (in London, at Covent Garden) | |
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| 1826 |
| | | In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Scottish engineer Thomas Telford completes two suspension bridges in Wales, at Conwy and over the Menai Strait | |
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| 1827 |
| | | The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion | |
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| 1827 |
| | | Lavalleja defeats a Brazilian army at Ituzaingó, in the decisive battle for Uruguayan independence | |
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| 1827 |
| | | George Canning becomes the British prime minister, but dies five months later | |
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