What Happened in December 1828

Historical Events

Dec 3 Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President

Dec 8 Clinton Bowen Fisk, American abolitionist, Brevet Major General (Union Army), helped establish 1st free public schools in the South, born in York, New York (d. 1890)
Dec 8 Robert Bullock, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1905)
Dec 16 John Beatty, American banker, statesman, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1914)
Dec 23 Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter)
Dec 28 Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
Dec 30 Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1885)

Dec 4 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Tory: 1812-27), dies of a stroke at 58

Dec 22 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies of heart failure
Dec 22 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
Dec 22 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium), dies at 62
Dec 30 Waldemar Thrane, Norwegian composer, dies at 38