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1828
The year '''1828''' ('''Roman numerals|MDCCCXXVIII''') was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1828
January - March
- January 4 - History of France|France: The Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac|Vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle|Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France.
- January 22 - History of the United Kingdom|UK: The Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington succeeds Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich|Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April - June
- April 11 - Bahia Blanca is founded.
- May 26 - Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.
- June 23 - History of Portugal|Portugal: King Miguel I of Portugal|Miguel I overthrows his niece Queen Maria II of Portugal|Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.
July - September
- August 11 - William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for Red Barn Murder|the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
- August 27 - History of South America|South America: Brazil and Argentina recognize the History of Uruguay#Struggle for independence|independence of Uruguay.
- September 29 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Siege of Varna|Varna is taken by the Russian army.
October - December
- December 3 - United States presidential election, 1828|U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
Undated
- history of science|Science: Friedrich Woehler|Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes Urea, disproving a cornerstone of vitalism.
- Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Iran|Persia.
- 1828 Siamese-Lao War: Thailand|Siam invades and sacks Vientiane.
- A typhoon kills approximately 10,000 in Kyūshū, Japan.
- 32,000 Angolans are sold in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Births
January - June
- February 8 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
- March 18 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
- March 20 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (d. 1906)
- May 8 - Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1910)
- May 8 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (d. 1898)
- May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (d. 1882)
July - December
- July 9 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
- August 6 - Andrew Taylor Still, father of osteopathy (d. 1917)
- August 17 - Maria Deraismes, French feminist (d. 1894)
- September 8- Joshua Chamberlain, leader of the 20th Maine during the American Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
- Clarence Cook, American art critic and writer (d. 1900)
- September 9 (Old Style|O.S. August 28) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
- October 20 - Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn ''It is Well with my Soul'' (d. 1888)
- October 31 - Joseph Swan, English physicist and chemist (d. 1914)
- December 8 - Clinton B. Fisk, American temperance movement leader (d. 1890)
- ''See also :Category: 1828 births.''
Deaths
January - June
- January 10 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
- March 12 - Jack Randall (boxer)|Jack Randall, early boxing champion
- April 16 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- May 8 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b. 1781)
- May 16 - William Congreve (inventor)|William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (b. 1772)
- May 28 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
- June 21 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, dramatist and poet (b. 1760)
July - December
- July 15 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
- July 21 - Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1755)
- September 20 - George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (b. 1797)
- September 22 - Shaka, the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
- November 5 - Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, Empress of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
- November 19 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
- December 4 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
- December 22
- William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
- Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, wife of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (b. 1767)
- ''See also :Category: 1828 deaths.''
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