1828 in the United States

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

• January 8 – Democratic Party is established.
• February 19 – The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established.
• February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, 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 – 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 – Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commences with a cornerstone laid by Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
• July 9 – The 1828–29 United States House of Representatives elections commence; they will increase the majority of the Jacksonian Democrats.
• August 11 – 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 – 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 – U.S. presidential election: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
• December 19 – 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 – 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

• 20th United States Congress

• January 2 – George M. Chilcott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1882 to 1883 (died 1891)
• January 28 – Thomas C. Hindman, U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1859 to 1861 and Confederate general (murdered 1868)
• May 26 – Benjamin F. Rice, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1873 (died 1905)
• March 24 – Horace Gray, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1902)
• April 28 – Richard Arnold, Union Army brigadier general (died 1882)
• June 2 – James Cutler Dunn Parker, organist and composer (died 1916)
• July 8 – David Turpie, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1863 and from 1887 to 1899 (died 1909)
• July 14 – Jervis McEntee, painter of the Hudson River School (died 1891)
• August 6 – Andrew Taylor Still, "father of osteopathy" (died 1917)
• August 28 – 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 – James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895 (died 1895)
• October 20 – Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" (died 1888)
• October 26 – William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (died 1905)
• October 29 – 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 – Milton Wright, bishop of the United Brethren Church and father of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers (died 1917)
• December 8 – Clinton B. Fisk, temperance leader (died 1890)

• February 11 – DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York, U.S. Senator (born 1769)
• March 25 – Maria Reynolds, mistress of Alexander Hamilton (born 1768)
• June 1 – Lyncoya Jackson, 2nd adopted son of Andrew Jackson (born c. 1811)
• June 6 – 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 – Gilbert Stuart, painter (born 1755)
• September 20 – George Bethune English, adventurer, marine and diplomat (born 1797)
• December 22 – Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson (born 1767)
• Full date unknown – William Lee, personal servant and slave of George Washington (born 1750)

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