1926

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1926 () was a common year starting on Friday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January
2 January: in Spain, they are broadcast for the first time by daily radio spoken, called The Word.
8 January: in Hedjaz, Ibn Saud is proclaimed king of the former independent kingdom of Hedjaz, currently incorporated into Saudi Arabia.
9 January: in Mexico, a band steals the Guadalajara- Mexico City train, killing between 20 and 50 people and looting 300,000 pesos. Most of the assailants are captured and executed.
17 January: coup de Estado in Nicaragua, President Carlos José Solórzano is replaced by Emiliano Chamorro.
22 January: the Plus Ultra flight with its crew members Ramón Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Juan Manuel Durán and Pablo Rada leaves Palos de la Frontera with a destination Buenos Aires.

February
1 February: In Germany the occupation of the city of Cologne ends.
3 February:
In Spain, an infantry colonel Francisco Franco (33 years old), then the youngest in Europe, is a brigade general.
Czech became the official language of Czechoslovakia and the country's minority languages were given great advantages.
6 February:
In Spain the king signs the decree establishing the National Book Festival.
Mussolini accuses Germany of a campaign against Italy, which causes a crisis between the two countries.
Spain and France sign a military cooperation agreement on the interests of both states in Morocco.
9 February: the Plus Ultra aircraft, manned by Ramón Franco, Ruiz de Alda, Durán and Rada, arrives in Buenos Aires and is received apotheosically.
10 February: In Spain, at the initiative of the promotion minister Rafael Benjumia and Burín, the National Circuit of Special Signatures is created.
11 February: the political party Alliance Republicana is created in Spain as a political group opposed to the dictatorship.
18 February:
An Anglo-Persian treaty extends the British mandate on Iran for 25 years.
In the bullring square of Málaga, the Spanish bullfighter Manuel Báez "El Litri" dies of a cornada.
February 19: In New York, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed in Europe, is auctioned at $106,000.
February 23: In the Soviet Union, the government is selling the crown of Empress Catherine II of Russia. It's acquired by some French jewelers.
24 February: between Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) a regular airline for passenger transport is established.

March
March 1: Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa wins the 1926 Brazilian presidential elections with almost all the votes.
March 3: In the village of Tresjuncos, Pastor José María Grimaldos, who was supposed to have been killed 17 years ago, is present. The matter became very media, becoming one of the biggest judicial scandals in history, the Cuenca Crime.
8 March: The N Society Meeting takes place in Geneva