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Historical Events for the Year 1828

  • 21st February » Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
  • 20th April » René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
  • 19th May » U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
  • 26th May » Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
  • 27th August » Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by United Kingdom e.g the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
  • 7th October » Morea Expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under Nicolas Joseph Maison or General Maison.
  • 25th October » St Katharine Docks open in London.
  • 16th November » Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol (1828) known as London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
  • 1st December » Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution (Argentina) known as Decembrist revolution.
  • 19th December » Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the 'South Carolina Exposition and Protest', protesting the Tariff of 1828.

Famous Birthdays in 1828

  • 10th January » Herman Koeckemann, German bishop (d. 1892)
  • 17th January » Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918)
  • 17th January » Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898)
  • 23rd January » Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
  • 8th February » Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
  • 12th February » George Meredith, English author (d. 1909)
  • 14th February » Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (d. 1885)
  • 29th February » Emmeline B. Wells, American journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1921)
  • 4th March » Owen Wynne Jones, Welsh clergyman and poet (d. 1870)
  • 18th March » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Peace Prize or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
  • 20th March » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)
  • 24th March » Horace Gray, American jurist (d. 1902)
  • 13th April » Joseph Lightfoot, English bishop and theologian (d. 1889)
  • 15th April » Jean Danjou, French captain (d. 1863)
  • 2nd May » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
  • 8th May » Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Peace Prize or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
  • 8th May » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint (d. 1898)
  • 12th May » Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (d. 1882)
  • 21st June » Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (d. 1904)
  • 9th July » Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
  • 12th July » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (d. 1889)
  • 2nd August » Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
  • 5th August » Louise of the Netherlands (d. 1871)
  • 17th August » Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (d. 1897)
  • 8th September » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914)
  • 8th September » Clarence Cook, American author and critic (d. 1900)
  • 9th September » Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (d. 1910)
  • 15th September » Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1886)
  • 19th September » Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1880)
  • 2nd October » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
  • 3rd October » Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
  • 10th October » Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
  • 14th November » James B. McPherson, American general (d. 1864)
  • 19th November » Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
  • 26th November » Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (d. 1895)
  • 26th November » René Goblet, French politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1905)

Famous Deaths in History for 1828

  • 10th January » François de Neufchâteau, French politician (b. 1750)
  • 31st January » Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
  • 16th April » Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
  • 8th May » Mauro Giuliani, Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (b. 1781)
  • 28th May » Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
  • 15th July » Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
  • 6th August » Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
  • 8th August » Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and phycologist (b. 1743)
  • 22nd August » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
  • 27th August » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
  • 25th September » Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (b. 1783)
  • 4th December » 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 December » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)