1828

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 - 1828 - 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833

• January 4 The Vicomte de Martignac[?] succeeds the Comte de Villèle[?] as Prime Minister of France.
• January 22 The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• April 26 Russia declares war on Turkey, in support of the Greek struggle for independence.
• May 26 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nurenberg[?], Germany.
• August 9 The Egyptians evacuate Greece, practically ending hostilities there.
• August 27 The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
• Urea becomes the first organic compound to be artificially synthesised, by Friedrich Wöhler (see Biochemistry)
• White comedian Thomas D. Rice introduces blackface and the song "Jim Crow" to American audiences.
• November - Andrew Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams in U.S. presidential election

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1828 in literature:

Births

• February 8 - Jules Verne, author (+ 1905)
• March 20 - Henrik Ibsen, (+ 1906)
• May 8 - Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross movement
• May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter (+ 1882)
• September 9 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).

Deaths

• May 16 - William Congreve, British rocket pioneer.
• July 15 - Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor
• December 22 - William Hyde Wollaston, noted English chemist