1828 in the United States
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Events from the year 1828 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts)
- Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina)
- Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia)
- Congress: 20th
State governments
Events
- January 8 â Democratic Party is established.
- February 19 â The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established.
- February 21 â The Cherokee PhÅnix, the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages (Cherokee), is first issued in New Echota.
- May 19 â The Tariff of 1828 is enacted. Critics name it the 'Tariff of Abominations' because they see it as unfairly protective of northern industry to the detriment of the southern economy.
- July 4 â Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commences with a cornerstone laid by Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
- July 9 â The 1828â29 United States House of Representatives elections commence; they will increase the majority of the Jacksonian Democrats.
- August 11 â The Working Men's Party is founded in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 1st 'worker oriented' political party in the United States.
- October 27 â Gold is discovered by Benjamin Parks in or near Cherokee First Nation land in Hall County - later reorganized into Lumpkin County - in, Georgia.
- December 3 â U.S. presidential election: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
- December 19 â A document written by U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, is presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives protesting the 'Tariff of Abominations'.[1]
- December 20 â The Georgia state legislature charters the Medical Academy of Georgia, which becomes the Medical College of Georgia, and authorizes it to award a Bachelor of Medicine degree, making it the 13th oldest U.S. medical school and the 6th public medical school to be established.
Undated
- White comedian Thomas D. Rice introduces blackface and the song "Jump Jim Crow" to American audiences.
- Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language is published.
- A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, a novel by Washington Irving, is published and popularizes the common misconception that Europeans thought the Earth was flat prior to the explorations of Columbus.[2]
- John Neal publishes Rachel Dyer, the first hardcover novelized version of the Salem witch trials story[3]
- Two minor political parties are formed: The single-issue Anti-Masonic Party in upstate New York, and the Nullifier Party advocating states' rights in opposition to the 'Tariff of Abominations'.
- American Peace Society established.
- A ring spinning machine is developed in the U.S.
Ongoing
Births
- January 2 â George M. Chilcott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1882 to 1883 (died 1891)
- January 28 â Thomas C. Hindman, U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1859 to 1861 and Confederate general (murdered 1868)
- May 26 â Benjamin F. Rice, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1873 (died 1905)
- March 24 â Horace Gray, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1902)
- April 28 â Richard Arnold, Union Army brigadier general (died 1882)
- June 2 â James Cutler Dunn Parker, organist and composer (died 1916)
- July 8 â David Turpie, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1863 and from 1887 to 1899 (died 1909)
- July 14 â Jervis McEntee, painter of the Hudson River School (died 1891)
- August 6 â Andrew Taylor Still, "father of osteopathy" (died 1917)
- August 28 â William A. Hammond, military physician and neurologist, 11th Surgeon General of the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1864 (died 1900)
- September 8
- Joshua Chamberlain, leader of the 20th Maine during the Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College (died 1914)
- Clarence Cook, art critic and writer (died 1900)
- October 19 â James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895 (died 1895)
- October 20 â Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" (died 1888)
- October 26 â William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (died 1905)
- October 29 â Thomas F. Bayard, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1869 to 1885 and U.S. Secretary of State from 1885 until 1889 (died 1898)
- November 17 â Milton Wright, bishop of the United Brethren Church and father of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers (died 1917)
- December 8 â Clinton B. Fisk, temperance leader (died 1890)
Deaths
- February 11 â DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York, U.S. Senator (born 1769)
- March 25 â Maria Reynolds, mistress of Alexander Hamilton (born 1768)
- June 1 â Lyncoya Jackson, 2nd adopted son of Andrew Jackson (born c. 1811)
- June 6 â John Kinzie, Fur trader responsible for "the first murder in Chicago", when he killed Jean La Lime in 1812 (born December 23, 1763)
- July 9 â Gilbert Stuart, painter (born 1755)
- September 20 â George Bethune English, adventurer, marine and diplomat (born 1797)
- December 22 â Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson (born 1767)
- Full date unknown â William Lee, personal servant and slave of George Washington (born 1750)
