1828

	1828 in topic:
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	Sports – Rail Transport
	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

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

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).

[edit] Events of 1828

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.

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 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)

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)

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