1828

This article is about the year 1828.

1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday (dominical letter AG) of the Julian calendar, the 1828th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 828th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1828, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.

Events

January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France.
January 22 – 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 in the United States.
February 22 – Treaty of Turkmenchay: By this Russian-Persian peace treaty signed on February 10 at Torkamanchay in Persia (Iran), the latter country is forced irrevocably to cede the territories of the Erivan Khanate (most of present-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) it 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.

April 11 – Bahía Blanca is founded.
April 20 – French explorer René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu and later return alive.
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 – King Miguel I of Portugal overthrows his niece Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.

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 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.

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.

January 23 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
February 8 – Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
March 13 – Sébastien Lespès, French admiral (d. 1897)
March 17 – Patrick Cleburne, Irish soldier and Confederate general (d. 1864)
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)
April 20 – Josephine Butler, British social reformer (d. 1906)
April 29 – Étienne Stéphane Tarnier, French obstetrician and inventor (d. 1897)
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 9 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
July 23 – Jonathan Hutchinson, English physician (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)

William Robert Woodman, British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (d. 1891)

January 10 – François de Neufchâteau, French politician 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)