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| 1926 |
| | | To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days | |
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| 1926 |
| | | 19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh | |
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| 1926 |
| | | British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw | |
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