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Wikipedia.
Events:
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. He repeals the Test Act, emancipating all Catholics, and introduces the Roman
Catholic Relief Act the following year.
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
Nuremberg, Germany.
August 9 The Egyptians evacuate Greece, practically ending hostilities there.
August 27 The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
December 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent
John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
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.
Births:
January 2 -
Jan de Vooght.
January 8 -
Wouter Tholenaars.
January 8 -
Neeltje van der Werf.
January 9 -
Tona Berman.
February 8 -
Jules Verne, author (+ 1905).
February 21 -
Aartje van den Houten.
March 13 -
Willem de Wijs.
March 20 -
Henrik Ibsen, (+ 1906).
April 10 -
Johanna Quant.
May 8 -
Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross movement.
May 12 -
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter (+ 1882).
August 18 -
Maarten van den Houten.
September 9 -
Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).
September 28 -
Gerardus Tolenaars.
December 4 -
Pieter van Splunder.
Deaths:
February 2 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
February 8 -
Paulus van den Houten.
May 16 -
William Congreve, British rocket pioneer.
July 15 -
Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor.
August 27 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
October 11 -
Maria van den Houten.
December 22 -
William Hyde Wollaston, noted English chemist.
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