Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1926.

March

• March 6: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.
• March 16: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• March 23: Eamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fáil in Ireland.

April

• April 7: An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.
• April 16: A train crash in San José, Costa Rica kills 178 people.
• April 24: Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next 5 years.
• April 25: Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."
• April 30: African-American pilot Bessie Coleman is killed after falling from an airplane.

May

• May 1: A coal miners' strike begins in Britain.
• May 3: The British General Strike begins in support of the coal strike.
• May 9: Martial law is declared in Britain because of the general strike.
• May 9: Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
• May 12: Roald Amundsen flies over the North Pole.
• May 12: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends.
• May 18: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• May 20: The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.
• May 23: The first Lebanese constitution is established.
• May 28: The 1926 coup d'état commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.

June

• June 19: DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

July

• July 1: The Kuomingtang begins a military unification campaign in northern China.
• July 9: General Antonio Carmona takes power in a military coup in Portugal.
• July 12: A lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey.
• July 23: Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• July 26: The National Bar Association incorporates in the United States.

August

• August 6: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England.
• August 6: In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• August 18: A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
• August 25: Mr Trevor, an angler, hooks a seal whilst fishing a pond on Hampstead Heath, London. (Books601)

September

• September 8: Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.
• September 11: Spain leaves the League of Nations.
• September 16: Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play 'Broadway' premieres in New York City.
• September 18: Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion dollars today).
• September 20: Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
• September 25: The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.

October

• October 12: British miners agree to end their strike.
• October 14: Alan Alexander Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh is released.
• October 20: A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.
• October 23: A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.
• October 23: The Fazal Mosque (one of the first in London) is completed.
• October 31: Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

November

• November 3: "I am sorry to record that a note, dated Nov. 3, 1926, is missing. As I remember it, and according to allusions, in notes of November 4th, it was only a remark of mine that for more than a year no picture had fallen." (Books979)
• November 4: "Last night, I noted about the pictures, because earlier in the evening, talking over psychic experiences with France and others, I had mentioned falling pictures in our house. Tonight when I came home, A (Anna Fort) told me of a loud sound that had been heard, and how welcome it was to her, because it had interupted E (the landlady's daughter), in a long, tiresome account of the plot of a moving picture. Later, A (Anna Fort) exclaimed: ' Here's what made that noise!' She had turned on the light, in the front room, and on the floor was a large picture. I had not mentioned to A (Anna Fort) that yesterday my mind was upon falling pictures. I took that note after she had gone to bed. I looked at the picture - cord broken, with frayed ends. I have kept a loop of this cord. The break is under a knot in it." (Books980)
• November 5: "I have not strongly emphasised enough A's (Anna Fort) state of mind, at the time of the fall of the picture. E's (the landlady's daughter) long account of a movie had annoyed her almost beyond endurance, and probably her hope for an interuption was keen. Here is an admission that I did not think, or suspect, that it was I, who was the magician, this time." (Books980)
• November 10: In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
• November 11: U.S. Route 66 is established.
• November 24: The village of Rocquebillier in the French Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
• November 25: The death penalty is re-established in Italy.
• November 26: All Italian Communist deputies are arrested.
• November 27: Mount Vesuvius erupts.

December

• December 2: British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike.
• December 8: Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found at the Harrogate Hotel. (Books683)
• December 26: In Japanese History, the Shōwa era begins from this day due to the demise of Emperor Taishō on the day before.