Year '1828' ('
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
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January 4 -
France: The
Vicomte de Martignac succeeds the
Comte de Villèle as
Prime Minister of France.
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January 22 -
UK: The
Duke of Wellington succeeds
Lord Goderich as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April - June
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April 11 - Foundation of
Bahia Blanca
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May 26 -
Feral child:
Kaspar Hauser is discovered in
Nuremberg,
Germany.
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June 23 -
Portugal: King
Miguel I overthrows his niece Queen
Maria II, beginning the
Liberal Wars.
July - September
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August 11 - William Corder is hanged at
Bury St. Edmunds,
England, for
the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
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August 27 –
South America:
Brazil and
Argentina recognize the
independence of Uruguay.
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September 29 -
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829:
Varna is taken by the
Russian army.
October - December
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December 3 -
U.S. presidential election:
Andrew Jackson is elected
President of the United States.
Undated
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Science:
Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes
Urea, disproving a cornerstone of
vitalism.
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Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russia captures
Eastern Armenia from
Persia.
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1828 Siamese-Lao War:
Siam invaded and
sacked Vientiane.
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Typhoon kills approximately 10,000 in
Kyūshū,
Japan.
Births
January - June
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February 8 -
Jules Verne, French author (d.
1905)
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March 18 -
William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1908)
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March 20 -
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (d.
1906)
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May 8 -
Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1910)
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May 8 -
Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (d.
1898)
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May 12 -
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (d.
1882)
July - December
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July 9 -
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d.
1913)
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August 6 -
Andrew Taylor Still, father of osteopathy (d.
1917)
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August 17 -
Maria Deraismes, French feminist (d.
1894)
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September 8-
Joshua Chamberlain, Leader of
20th Maine during the
American Civil War,
Governor of Maine, President of
Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine
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September 9 (
O.S. August 28) -
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d.
1910)
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October 20 -
Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn ''"It is Well with my Soul"'' (d.
1888)
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October 31 -
Joseph Swan, English physicist and chemist (d.
1914)
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December 8 -
Clinton B. Fisk, American
temperance movement leader (d.
1890)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 10 -
François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b.
1750)
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March 12 -
Jack Randall, early boxing champion
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April 16 -
Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b.
1746)
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May 8 -
Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b.
1781)
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May 16 -
William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (b.
1772)
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June 21 -
Leandro Fernández de Moratín, dramatist and poet (b.
1760)
July - December
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July 15 -
Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b.
1741)
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July 21 -
Charles Manners-Sutton,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1755)
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November 5 -
Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, Empress of
Paul I of Russia (b.
1759)
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November 19 -
Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b.
1797)
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December 4 -
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1770)
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December 22
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William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b.
1766)
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Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, wife of U.S. President
Andrew Jackson (b.
1767)
: ''See also .''
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