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Everything about 1828 totally explainedThe 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 - March
April - June
April 11 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca
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.
July - September
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.
October - December
December 3 - U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
Undated
Science: Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes Urea, disproving a cornerstone of vitalism.
Treaty of Turkmenchay: Russia captures Eastern Armenia from Persia.
1828 Siamese-Lao War: Siam invaded and sacked Vientiane.
Typhoon kills approximately 10,000 in Kyūshū, Japan.
32,000 Angolans are sold in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Births
January - June
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 - December
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 20th Maine during the American Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
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)
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Deaths
January - June
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 - December
July 15 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
July 21 - Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1755)
20 September - George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (b. 1797)
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
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