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Special Events for the Year 1828 - back to GREGSITE

Born :01/24/1828Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :05/19/1828Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :05/22/1828Albrecht Gr„fe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
Born :06/04/1828Alexander William Campbell, Brig general (Confederate Army)
Born :05/28/1828Alpheus Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Born :02/29/1828Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela
Born :01/05/1828August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
Born :11/02/1828Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Born :01/23/1828Calvin Edward Pratt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
Born :04/06/1828Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Born :12/08/1828Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Born :07/29/1828Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
Born :05/23/1828Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
Born :08/11/1828Edward Saloman, Gov (Union), died in 1909
Born :03/04/1828Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :07/31/1828Fran‡ois Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin)
Born :05/12/1828Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
Born :04/08/1828George Baird Hodge, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :08/24/1828George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :08/31/1828George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :02/12/1828George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat)
Born :04/27/1828Gerben Colmjon, Fries language publisher
Born :03/20/1828Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
Born :04/21/1828Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage & Italy)
Born :10/27/1828Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
Born :11/14/1828James Birdseye MacPherson, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :03/01/1828James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
Born :07/04/1828James Johnston Pettigrew, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :05/20/1828James William Reilly, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Born :05/08/1828Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901)
Born :11/30/1828Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Born :03/02/1828Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General (Union Army), died in 1879
Born :02/15/1828Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
Born :02/19/1828Johannes von Miquel, German politician
Born :07/03/1828John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
Born :12/16/1828John Beatty, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
Born :07/21/1828John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :07/23/1828Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
Born :08/16/1828Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :05/13/1828Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer
Born :09/08/1828Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :02/08/1828Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
Born :06/27/1828Junius Daniel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :12/28/1828Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
Born :09/09/1828Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina)
Born :01/17/1828Lewis Addison Grant, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1918
Born :04/04/1828Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City)
Born :12/30/1828Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
Born :12/23/1828Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter)
Born :03/17/1828Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :02/22/1828Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Born :04/24/1828Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Born :12/08/1828Robert Bullock, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
Born :02/12/1828Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Born :07/19/1828Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
Born :01/27/1828Samuel Allen Rice, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :01/28/1828Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1868
Born :10/23/1828Turner Ashby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Born :03/01/1828Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
Born :08/28/1828William Alexander Hammond, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1900
Born :11/21/1828William McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918
Died :06/14/1828Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies
Died :06/14/1828Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70
Died :11/19/1828Franz P Schubert, Austria composer (That sch”ne Mllerin), dies at 31
Died :07/27/1828Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
Died :02/23/1828Mih ly Fazekar, Hungarian botanicus/literary (Book of Spices), dies
Died :12/22/1828Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies
Died :04/30/1828Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed
Special :04/14/182818-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
Special :02/21/18281st Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia
Special :04/14/18281st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
Special :12/03/1828Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
Special :05/18/1828Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
Special :07/04/1828Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
Special :02/25/1828John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House
Special :02/18/1828More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
Special :04/21/1828Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
Special :03/24/1828Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
Special :12/19/1828South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
Special :05/13/1828US passes Tariff of Abominations

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