1828
Events
January–March
January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac , succeeds the Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France .
January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
January 22 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
February 10 – Black War : Cape Grim massacre – About 30 Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured "servants" (or convicts) employed as shepherds for the Van Diemen's Land Company as part of a series of reprisal attacks, with the bodies of some of the men thrown from a 60 metre (200 ft) cliff.
February 19 – The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established in the United States.
February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix , the earliest newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages, Cherokee , is first issued in New Echota .
February 22 – Treaty of Turkmenchay : By this Russian-Persian peace treaty signed on February 10 at Torkamanchay , Persia (Iran), the latter country is forced irrevocably to cede the territories of the Erivan Khanate (most of modern-day central Armenia and the northern Iğdır Province of Turkey), the Nakhichevan Khanate (most of the modern-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan ), the remainder of the Talysh Khanate (southeastern Azerbaijan), and the Ordubad and Mughan regions (also part of modern-day Azerbaijan) to Imperial Russia. By this and the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) Persia has now lost all its territories north of the Aras River, comprising modern-day Georgia , Dagestan , Azerbaijan and Armenia to Russia. Armenians from Persian Azerbaijan are to be resettled in the Caucasus .
March 3 – Dom Pedro I , Emperor of Brazil and former King of Portugal , signs a document "to complete my abdication of the Portuguese crown" (made in 1826), to renounce all claims in favor of his daughter Queen Maria II , and to declare "indubitable proof" that he wishes Portugal to be "perpetually separated from the Brazilian nation....in such a manner as may render even the idea of reunion impracticable."
March 18 – Simón Bolívar , President of Colombia (and former President of Venezuela , Peru and Bolivia ), departs from the capital at Bogotá in order to help his ally, General José Antonio Páez , suppress an uprising near the Venezuelan border, but is sidetracked by another rebellion in Cartagena .
October–December
October 4 – Uruguay gains independence from Brazil .
October 26
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 – 1828 United States presidential election : Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent John Quincy Adams in a landslide.
December 9 – An attempt to assassinate Gran Colombia's President Simon Bolívar fails while he is visiting Jamaica. Bolivar accepts a last-minute invitation to be elsewhere and his servant, hired by the Spanish royal government to kill Bolivar, kills Bolivar's paymaster by mistake.
December 20 – The U.S. State of Georgia legislature charters the Medical Academy of Georgia, which becomes the Medical College of Georgia , and authorizes it to award a Bachelor of Medicine degree, making it the 13th oldest U.S. medical school and the sixth public medical school to be established.
December 28 – The province of Echigo , Japan, is hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 1,500 people.
December 30 – Publication (begun on January 14) of Franz Schubert 's song cycle Winterreise is concluded posthumously.
Births
January–June
Jules Verne
Jean Henri Dunant
January 17 – Alexandru Cernat , Moldavian-born Romanian general and politician (d. 1893)
January 22 – Dora d'Istria , Romanian-Albanian writer (d. 1888)
January 23 – Saigō Takamori , Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
February 8 – Jules Verne , French science fiction author (d. 1905)
March 13 – Sébastien Lespès , French admiral (d. 1897)
March 17 – Patrick Cleburne , Irish soldier, Confederate general (d. 1864)
March 18 – Sir Randal Cremer , English politician, pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
March 20 – Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (d. 1906)
March 24 – Horace Gray , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
March 25 – George Montgomery White , American politician (d. 1860)
April 17 – Johanna Mestorf , German prehistoric archaeologist (d. 1909)
April 20 – Josephine Butler , British social reformer (d. 1906)
April 26 – Martha Finley , American teacher, author (d. 1909)
April 29 – Étienne Stéphane Tarnier , French obstetrician, inventor (d. 1897)
May 8
May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti , English poet, painter (d. 1882)
June 21 – Ferdinand André Fouqué , French geologist, petrologist (d. 1904)
June 28 – Alexandre Franquet , French admiral (d. 1907)
July–December
Leo Tolstoy
July 9 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano , Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
July 23 – Sir Jonathan Hutchinson , English physician (d. 1913)
July 28 – Iosif Gurko , Russian field marshal (d. 1901)
July 31 – Ignacio de Veintemilla , 11th President of Ecuador (d. 1908)
August 6 – Andrew Taylor Still , American father of osteopathy (d. 1917)
August 17 – Maria Deraismes , French feminist (d. 1894)
August 25 – Jane Stanford , American philanthropist, co-founder of Stanford University, first lady of California (d. 1905)
August 28 – William A. Hammond , American military physician, neurologist and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (d. 1900)
September 1 – Anthony Hoskins , British admiral (d. 1901)
September 8
September 9 (O.S. )/August 28 (N.S. ) – Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer (d. 1910)
October 2 – Charles Floquet , Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
October 20 – Horatio Spafford , American author of the hymn It Is Well with My Soul (d. 1888)
October 31 – Sir Joseph Swan , English physicist, chemist (d. 1914)
November 17 – Milton Wright , American bishop, father of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers (d. 1917)
November 19 – Rani Lakshmibai , queen of the Maratha -ruled princely Indian state of Jhansi (d. 1858)
November 24 – Henry Lomb , German-American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (d. 1908)
November 26 – René Goblet , Prime Minister of France (d. 1905)
December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk , American temperance movement leader (d. 1890)
Deaths
January–June
Francisco Goya
January 10 – François de Neufchâteau , French politician, intellectual (b. 1750)
January 13 – Theodore Foster , American politician (b. 1752)
February 11 – DeWitt Clinton , 6th Governor of New York , United States Senator (b. 1769)
March 12 – Jack Randall , early English 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 1 – Lyncoya Jackson , second adopted son of American President Andrew Jackson (b. c. 1811)
June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín , Spanish dramatist, poet (b. 1760)
June 25 – Richard W. Meade , American merchant and art collector (b. 1762)
July–December
Franz Schubert
William Hyde Wollaston
July 9
July 15 – Jean-Antoine Houdon , French sculptor (b. 1741)
July 16 – William Few , American politician (b. 1748)
July 21 – Charles Manners-Sutton , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1755)
July 30 – François Isaac de Rivaz , French inventor, politician (b. 1752)
August 8 – Carl Peter Thunberg , Swedish botanist (b. 1743)
August 22 – Franz Joseph Gall , German phrenologist (b. 1758)
August 23 – John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel , Irish politician (b. 1740)
September 20 – George Bethune English , American explorer, writer (b. 1797)
September 22 – Shaka , most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom (b. 1787)
September 25 – Charlotta Seuerling , Swedish musician (b. 1783)
October 12 – Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus , Aromanian physician and noble (b. 1737)
October 26 – Albrecht Thaer , German agronomist (b. 1752)
October 29 – Luke Hansard , English printer (b. 1752)
October 31 – John Marsh , English music composer (b. 1752)
November 5 – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) , Empress of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
November 15 – Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld , First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (b. 1752)
November 19 – Franz Schubert , Austrian composer and songwriter (b. 1797)
December 4 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
December 22
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