1828
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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).
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[edit] Events of 1828
[edit] 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.
[edit] April - June
- April 11 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca
- 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] October - December
[edit] Undated
- Science: Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes Urea, disproving a cornerstone of vitalism.
- Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Persia.
- 1828 Siamese-Lao War: Siam invaded and sacked Vientiane.
- Typhoon kills approximately 10,000 in Kyūshū, Japan.
- 32,000 Angolans are sold in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1828 MDCCCXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2581 |
| Armenian calendar | 1277 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -16 – -15 |
| Berber calendar | 2778 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2372 |
| Burmese calendar | 1190 |
| Chinese calendar | 4464/4524-11-15 (丁亥年十一月十五日) — to —
4465/4525-11-25(戊子年十一月廿五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1544 – 1545 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1820 – 1821 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5588 – 5589 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1883 – 1884 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1750 – 1751 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4929 – 4930 |
| Holocene calendar | 11828 |
| Iranian calendar | 1206 – 1207 |
| Islamic calendar | 1243 – 1244 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 11 (文政11年) |
| Korean calendar | 4161 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2371 |
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 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)
- See also Category: 1828 births.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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)
[edit] July - December
- July 15 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
- July 21 - Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1755)
- 20 September - George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (b. 1797)
- 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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- See also Category: 1828 deaths.
