1828 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1828?
- April 14, 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- April 20, 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
- May 19, 1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
- May 26, 1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- August 27, 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
- October 7, 1828 – The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
- October 25, 1828 – The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
- December 19, 1828 – Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
Who Were Born In The Year 1828?
- January 10, 1828 – Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
- January 17, 1828 – Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918)
- January 23, 1828 – Saigō Takamori, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
- February 12, 1828 – George Meredith, English writer (d. 1909)
- February 14, 1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)
- March 20, 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
- March 24, 1828 – Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
- April 15, 1828 – Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer (d. 1863)
- May 2, 1828 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
- May 8, 1828 – Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (d. 1898)
- May 12, 1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British painter (d. 1882)
- July 9, 1828 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
- August 17, 1828 – Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
- August 28, 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910)
- September 8, 1828 – Clarence Cook, American writer and art critic (d. 1900)
- September 9, 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- September 15, 1828 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
- September 19, 1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
- October 2, 1828 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
- October 10, 1828 – Samuel J. Randall, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
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