1828

The year 1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1828

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.

April 11 – Bahia Blanca is founded.
May 26 – Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.
June 23 – Portugal: King Miguel I overthrows his niece Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.

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.
September 29 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Varna is taken by the Russian army.

Science: Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes Urea, disproving a cornerstone of vitalism.
Science: Ányos Jedlik creates the world's first electric motor.
Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Persia.
1828 Siamese-Lao War: Siam invades and sacks Vientiane.
A typhoon kills approximately 10,000 in Kyūshū, Japan.
32,000 Angolans are sold in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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)

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
- 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 31 – Joseph Swan, English physicist and chemist (d. 1914)
December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk, American temperance movement leader (d. 1890)

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 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)

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