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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1825 1826 1827 – 1828 – 1829 1830 1831

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Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

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Countries:     Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

The 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

• January 4 – France: The Vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France.
• January 22 – UK: The Duke of Wellington succeeds 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 – Portugal: King Miguel I overthrows his niece Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.

July–September

• August 11 – William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
• August 27 – South America: Brazil and Argentina recognize the independence of Uruguay.
• September 29 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Varna is taken by the Russian army.

October–December

• December 3 – U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.

Undated

• Science: Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes Urea, disproving a cornerstone of vitalism.
• Science: Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.
• Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Persia.
• 1828 Siamese-Lao War: 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 (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)

Deaths

January–June

• January 10 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
• March 12 – 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, 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)

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