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1926
 
    
Rudolf von Laban publishes a new system of dance notation, which becomes known in English as Labanotation       
1926
 
     
Mies van der Rohe designs a monument in Berlin for the Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg        
1926
 
    
English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion       
1926
 
    
Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it       
1926
 
     
The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations        
1926
 
     
23-year-old US crooner Bing Crosby makes his first record, singing I''ve Got the Girl with the Paul Whiteman band        
1926
 
    
Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York       
1926
 
    
Walter Gropius designs buildings in Dessau as a new home for the Bauhaus       
1926
 
     
Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno        
1926
 
    
US author Ernest Hemingway succeeds with his second novel, The Sun also Rises (also known as Fiesta)