1828

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1825 1826 1827 – 1828 – 1829 1830 1831

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

Events

January–March

• January 22 – UK: The Duke of Wellington takes over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from Lord Goderich.

April–June

• April 11 – Bahía Blanca is founded.
• April 26 – Treaty of Commerce and Navigation was signed between Brazil and Denmark, establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Births

January–June

• February 8 – Jules Verne, French novelist (d. 1905)
• March 20 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (d. 1906)
• May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (d. 1882)

Deaths

• April 16 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
• November 19 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)