1st » Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution (Argentina) known as Decembrist revolution.
19th » Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the 'South Carolina Exposition and Protest', protesting the Tariff of 1828.
Famous Deaths for December 1828
4th » Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
22nd » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)