1828
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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 – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – Philippines – South Africa – US – UK |
| 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 | 丁亥年十一月十五日 (4464/4524-11-15) — to —
戊子年十一月廿五日(4465/4525-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 1544–1545 |
| 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 | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 828–829 |
| Iranian calendar | 1206–1207 |
| Islamic calendar | 1243–1244 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 11 (文政11年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4161 |
| Minguo calendar | 84 before ROC 民前84年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2371 |
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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 [edit]
January–March [edit]
- 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.
- February 22 –Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russian-Persian peace treaty: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Persia.
April–June [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- 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, 1828-1829: Varna is taken by the Russian army.
October–December [edit]
- 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 3 – U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
Date unknown [edit]
- 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 [edit]
January–June [edit]
- 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)
- June 21 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (d. 1904)
July–December [edit]
- 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 (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 United Bretheren Church, father of aviation pioneers Wilbur & Orville Wright (d. 1917)
- December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk, American temperance movement leader (d. 1890)
- November 19 – Rani Lakshmibai, worked in Indian Rebellion of 1857
Deaths [edit]
January–June [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- 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)
