This article is about the year 1828.
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 |
1828 in topic: |
Humanities |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
By country |
Australia – Brazil - Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – Philippines – South Africa – United Kingdom – United States |
Other topics |
Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
Lists of leaders |
Colonial Governors – State leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1828 MDCCCXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2581 |
Armenian calendar | 1277 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6578 |
Bahá'í calendar | −16 – −15 |
Bengali calendar | 1235 |
Berber calendar | 2778 |
British Regnal year | 8 Geo. 4 – 9 Geo. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2372 |
Burmese calendar | 1190 |
Byzantine calendar | 7336–7337 |
Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4524 or 4464 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4525 or 4465 |
Coptic calendar | 1544–1545 |
Discordian calendar | 2994 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1820–1821 |
Hebrew calendar | 5588–5589 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1884–1885 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1750–1751 |
- Kali Yuga | 4929–4930 |
Holocene calendar | 11828 |
Igbo calendar | 828–829 |
Iranian calendar | 1206–1207 |
Islamic calendar | 1243–1244 |
Japanese calendar | Bunsei 11 (文政11年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4161 |
Minguo calendar | 84 before ROC 民前84年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2371 |
The year 1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- January 4 – France: Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France.
- January 22 – United Kingdom: The Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- February 19 – The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established.
- February 22 – Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russian-Persian peace treaty: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Qajar dynasty Persia.
April–June
- April 11 – Bahía Blanca is founded.
- April 26 – Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed between Brazil and Denmark, establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.[1]
- May 26 – Supposedly feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.
- June 3 – Gran Colombia–Peru War: President Simón Bolívar declares war on Peru.
- June 23 – Portugal: King Miguel I overthrows his niece Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.
July–September
- A typhoon kills approximately 10,000 people in Kyūshū, Japan.
- 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. Simón Bolívar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia.
- September 29 – Russo-Turkish War (1828–29): Varna is taken by the Russian army.
October–December
- October 26 – English naturalist and explorer William John Burchell collects the only known specimen of Parabouchetia brasiliensis,an exceptionally rare member of the nightshade family Solanaceae, in central Brazil.
- November 11 – Greek War of Independence: the London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
- November 12 – Anouvong, ruler of the Kingdom of Vientiane, is deposed and the kingdom is annexed by Siam. During the war, the city of Vientiane is obliterated by Siamese forces.
- December 1 – Decembrist revolution (Argentina): Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposes the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
- December 3 – U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
- December 30 – Publication (begun on January 14) of Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise is concluded posthumously.
Date unknown
- Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes urea, possibly discrediting a cornerstone of vitalism.
- Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.
- 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)
- Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (d. 1898)
- May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (d. 1882)
- June 21 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (d. 1904)
July–December
- July 9 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
- July 28 – Iosif Gurko, Russian field marshal (d. 1901)
- 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 (d. 1914)
- 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 26 – William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (d. 1905)
- October 31 – Joseph Swan, English physicist and chemist (d. 1914)
- November 17 – Milton Wright, American bishop of the United Brethren Church and father of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers (d. 1917)
- November 19 – Rani Lakshmibai, queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of Jhansi (d. 1858)
- December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk, American temperance movement leader (d. 1890)
date unknown
- William Robert Woodman, British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (d. 1891)
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 Kingdom (b. 1787)
- November 5 – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie 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)