What happened in 1828
15 events World 2, North America 3, Europe 7, Middle East 1, Latin America 1, Oceania 1
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Highlights of 1828
- Jan 8North AmericaThe Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
- Feb 10OceaniaBlack War: Cape Grim massacre – About 30 Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured "servants" (or convicts) employed as shepherds for the Van 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.
- Feb 22Middle EastTreaty of Turkmenchay: By this Russian-Persian peace treaty signed on February 10 at Torkamanchay, Persia (Iran), the latter country is forced irrevocably to cede the territories of the Erivan Khanate (most of modern-day central Armenia and the northern Iğdır Province of Turkey), the Nakhichevan Khanate (most of the modern-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan), the remainder of the Talysh Khanate (southeastern Azerbaijan), and the Ordubad and Mughan regions (also part of modern-day Azerbaijan) to Imperial Russia. By this and the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) Persia has now lost all its territories north of the Aras River, comprising modern-day Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Armenia to Russia. Armenians from Persian Azerbaijan are to be resettled in the Caucasus.
- Apr 26WorldRussia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Russo-Turkish War.
- Sep 29EuropeRusso-Turkish War (1828–29): Varna is taken by the Russian army.
- Dec 1Latin AmericaDecembrist revolution (Argentina): Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposes the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
World2
- Apr 26Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Russo-Turkish War.
- Jun 3Gran Colombia–Peru War: Gran Colombia's President Simón Bolívar declares war on Peru.
North America3
- Jan 8The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
- Feb 21The Cherokee Phœnix, the earliest newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages, Cherokee, is first issued in New Echota.
- Dec 31828 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent John Quincy Adams in a landslide.
Europe7
- Apr 27The London Zoo opens for members of the Zoological Society of London as the first scientific zoo in the United Kingdom.
- Jun 23King Miguel I of Portugal overthrows his niece, Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.
- Jul 5The British weekly The Spectator is founded by Robert Rintoul as a radical magazine.
- Aug 11William Corder is hanged at Bury St Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year earlier.
- Aug 28Russian forces succeed in the Battle of Akhaltsikhe against the Ottomans, capturing the fortress after an 8-day siege.
- Sep 29Russo-Turkish War (1828–29): Varna is taken by the Russian army.
- Dec 30Publication (begun on January 14) of Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise is concluded posthumously.
Middle East1
- Feb 22Treaty of Turkmenchay: By this Russian-Persian peace treaty signed on February 10 at Torkamanchay, Persia (Iran), the latter country is forced irrevocably to cede the territories of the Erivan Khanate (most of modern-day central Armenia and the northern Iğdır Province of Turkey), the Nakhichevan Khanate (most of the modern-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan), the remainder of the Talysh Khanate (southeastern Azerbaijan), and the Ordubad and Mughan regions (also part of modern-day Azerbaijan) to Imperial Russia. By this and the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) Persia has now lost all its territories north of the Aras River, comprising modern-day Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Armenia to Russia. Armenians from Persian Azerbaijan are to be resettled in the Caucasus.
Latin America1
- Dec 1Decembrist revolution (Argentina): Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposes the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
Oceania1
- Feb 10Black War: Cape Grim massacre – About 30 Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured "servants" (or convicts) employed as shepherds for the Van 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.