Calendar year
August 21 to 28: TheBattle of Akhaltsikhe is won by Russia over the Ottomans. February 22: TheTreaty of Turkmenchay is signed as Persia cedes territories to the Russian Empire. 1828 by topic Humanities By country Other topics Lists of leaders Birth and death categories Establishments and disestablishments categories Works category
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1828 (MDCCCXXVIII ) was aleap year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Sunday of theJulian calendar , the 1828th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 28th year of the19th century , and the 9th year of the1820s decade. As of the start of 1828, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 4 –Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds theComte de Villèle , asPrime Minister of France .January 8 – TheDemocratic Party of the United States is organized.January 22 –Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington succeedsLord Goderich asPrime Minister of the United Kingdom .February 10 – "Black War ": In theCape Grim massacre – About 30Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured "servants" (or convicts) employed as shepherds for theVan Diemen's Land Company as part of a series of reprisal attacks, with the bodies of some of the men thrown from a 60 metre (200 ft) cliff.[ 1] February 19 – TheBoston Society for Medical Improvement is established in the United States.February 21 – The first American-Indian newspaper in the United States, theCherokee Phoenix [ 2] February 22 –Treaty of Turkmenchay : By this Russian-Persian peace treaty signed on February 10 atTorkamanchay , Persia (Iran), the latter country is forced irrevocably to cede the territories of theErivan Khanate (most of modern-day centralArmenia and the northernIğdır Province of Turkey), theNakhichevan Khanate (most of the modern-dayNakhchivan Autonomous Republic ofAzerbaijan ), the remainder of theTalysh Khanate (southeastern Azerbaijan), and theOrdubad and Mughan regions (also part of modern-day Azerbaijan) to Imperial Russia. By this and theTreaty of Gulistan (1813) it has now lost all its territories north of theAras River, comprising modern-dayGeorgia ,Dagestan , Azerbaijan and Armenia to Russia.Armenians fromPersian Azerbaijan are to be resettled in theCaucasus .March 3 –Dom Pedro I ,Emperor of Brazil and formerKing of Portugal , signs a document "to complete my abdication of the Portuguese crown" (made in 1826), to renounce all claims in favor of his daughterQueen Maria II , and to declare "indubitable proof" that he wishes Portugal to be "perpetually separated from the Brazilian nation....in such a manner as may render even the idea of reunion impracticable."[ 3] March 18 –Simón Bolívar ,President of Colombia (and former President ofVenezuela ,Peru andBolivia ), departs from the capital atBogotá in order to help his ally, GeneralJosé Antonio Páez , suppress an uprising near the Venezuelan border, but is sidetracked by another rebellion inCartagena .[ 4] October 26 November 11 –Greek War of Independence : theLondon Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty encompassing theMorea and theCyclades .November 12 –Anouvong , ruler of theKingdom 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 toBuenos Aires with troops that fought in theCisplatine War , deposes the provincial governorManuel Dorrego , reigniting theArgentine Civil Wars .December 3 –1828 United States presidential election :Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent John Quincy Adams in a landslide.December 9 – An attempt to assassinate Gran Colombia's PresidentSimon Bolívar fails while he is visiting Jamaica. Bolivar accepts a last-minute invitation to be elsewhere and his servant, hired by the Spanish royal government to kill Bolivar, kills Bolivar's paymaster by mistake.[ 13] December 20 – The U.S. State ofGeorgia legislature charters the Medical Academy of Georgia, which becomes theMedical College of Georgia , and authorizes it to award a Bachelor of Medicine degree, making it the 13th oldest U.S. medical school and the sixth public medical school to be established.December 28 – The province ofEchigo , Japan, is hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 1,500 people.December 30 – Publication (begun on January 14) ofFranz Schubert 'ssong cycle Winterreise Jules Verne Jean Henri Dunant January 17 –Alexandru Cernat , Moldavian-born Romanian general and politician (d. 1893)January 22 –Dora d'Istria , Romanian-Albanian writer (d. 1888)January 23 –Saigō Takamori , Japanesesamurai February 8 –Jules Verne , French science fiction author (d. 1905)March 13 –Sébastien Lespès , French admiral (d. 1897)March 17 –Patrick Cleburne , Irish soldier, Confederate general (d. 1864)March 18 –Sir Randal Cremer , English politician, pacifist, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)March 20 –Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (d. 1906)March 24 –Horace Gray ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)March 25 –George Montgomery White , American politician (d. 1860)[ 15] April 17 –Johanna Mestorf , Germanprehistoric archaeologist (d. 1909)April 20 –Josephine Butler , British social reformer (d. 1906)April 26 –Martha Finley , American teacher, author (d. 1909)April 29 –Étienne Stéphane Tarnier , French obstetrician, inventor (d. 1897)May 8 May 12 –Dante Gabriel Rossetti , English poet, painter (d. 1882)June 21 –Ferdinand André Fouqué , French geologist, petrologist (d. 1904)June 28 –Alexandre Franquet , French admiral (d. 1907)Leo Tolstoy July 9 –Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano , Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)July 23 –Sir Jonathan Hutchinson , English physician (d. 1913)July 28 –Iosif Gurko , Russian field marshal (d. 1901)July 31 –Ignacio de Veintemilla , 11th President of Ecuador (d. 1908)August 6 –Andrew Taylor Still , American father of osteopathy (d. 1917)August 17 –Maria Deraismes , French feminist (d. 1894)August 28 –William A. Hammond , American military physician, neurologist and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (d. 1900)September 1 –Anthony Hoskins , British admiral (d. 1901)September 8 September 9 (O.S. )/August 28 (N.S. ) –Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer (d. 1910)October 2 –Charles Floquet , Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)October 20 –Horatio Spafford , American author of the hymnIt Is Well with My Soul (d. 1888)October 31 –Sir Joseph Swan , English physicist, chemist (d. 1914)November 17 –Milton Wright , American bishop, father of aviation pioneers theWright brothers (d. 1917)November 19 –Rani Lakshmibai , queen of theMaratha -ruled princely Indian state ofJhansi (d. 1858)November 24 –Henry Lomb , German-American optician, co-founder ofBausch & Lomb (d. 1908)November 26 –René Goblet , Prime Minister of France (d. 1905)December 8 –Clinton B. Fisk ,American temperance movement leader (d. 1890)Francisco Goya January 10 –François de Neufchâteau , French politician, intellectual (b. 1750)January 13 –Theodore Foster , American politician (b. 1752)February 11 –DeWitt Clinton , 6thGovernor of New York ,United States Senator (b. 1769)March 12 –Jack Randall , early English boxing championApril 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 1 –Lyncoya Jackson , second adopted son of American PresidentAndrew Jackson (b. c. 1811)June 21 –Leandro Fernández de Moratín , Spanish dramatist, poet (b. 1760)June 25 –Richard W. Meade , American merchant and art collector (b. 1762)Franz Schubert William Hyde Wollaston July 9 July 15 –Jean-Antoine Houdon , French sculptor (b. 1741)July 16 –William Few , American politician (b. 1748)July 21 –Charles Manners-Sutton ,Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1755)July 30 –François Isaac de Rivaz , French inventor, politician (b. 1752)August 8 –Carl Peter Thunberg , Swedish botanist (b. 1743)August 22 –Franz Joseph Gall , German phrenologist (b. 1758)August 23 –John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel , Irish politician (b. 1740)September 20 –George Bethune English , American explorer, writer (b. 1797)September 22 –Shaka , most influential leader of theZulu Kingdom (b. 1787)September 25 –Charlotta Seuerling , Swedish musician (b. 1783)October 12 –Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus , Aromanian physician and noble (b. 1737)[ 16] October 26 –Albrecht Thaer , German agronomist (b. 1752)October 29 –Luke Hansard , English printer (b. 1752)October 31 –John Marsh , English music composer (b. 1752)November 5 –Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) , Empress ofPaul I of Russia (b. 1759)November 15 –Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld , First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (b. 1752)November 19 –Franz Schubert , Austrian composer and songwriter (b. 1797)December 4 –Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)December 22 ^ Clements, Nicholas (2014).The Black War . 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(2014)."Peel's Other Repeal: The Test and Corporation Acts, 1828" .Parliamentary History .33 :243– 262.doi :10.1111/1750-0206.12096 . ^ John Clark Marshman,History of India from the Earliest Period to the Close of the East India Company's Government (William Blackwood and Sons, 1876) p357; reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2010) ^ Blake, Robert (1978-09-23). "From Wellington to Thatcher".The Spectator .^ "Japan", inEncyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones , by David Longshore (Infobase Publishing, 2010) p272 ^ Nicholas I of Russia (1830) [1828]."О принятии Государем Императором под своё покровительство всех заведений, состоявших в ведении покойной Государыни Императрицы Марии Федоровны" [On the acceptance by the Sovereign Emperor under his patronage of all institutions run by the late Empress Maria Feodorovna].Полное собрание законов Российской империи (2nd ed.). Printing House of Section II, His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery. pp. 948– 949.^ Masur, Gerhard (1948).Simón Bolívar University of New Mexico Press .ISBN 978-0-8263-0131-4 {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) ^ "Born Here" .The Examiner . Retrieved12 July 2014 – via National Library of Australia.^ "George Montgomery White's death notice" .The Wilmington Journal .Wilmington, North Carolina . July 19, 1860.^ Wurzbach, Constantin von (1869).Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich: Nabielak – Odelga Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (in German). Vol. 20. p. 316.
