1828

Events from the year 1828 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: John Quincy Adams (DR-MA)
* Vice President: John C. Calhoun (D-SC)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA)
* Congress: 20th
==Events==
* 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.
* August 11 – the Working Men's Party is founded in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 1st 'worker oriented' political party in the USA.
* 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 titled South Carolina Exposition and Protest is presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives protesting the Tariff of Abominations.
==Memoriam==
* February 11 – DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York, U.S. Senator from New York from 1802 to 1803 (aged 58; Albany, NY, USA)
* March 7 – Richard Stockton, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1796 to 1799 (aged 63; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* March 25 – Maria Reynolds, mistress of Alexander Hamilton (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 1 – Lyncoya Jackson, 2nd adopted son of Andrew Jackson (aged 17; Davidson County, TN, USA)
* June 6 – John Kinzie, Fur trader responsible for "the first murder in Chicago", when he killed Jean La Lime in 1812 (aged 64; Chicago, IL, USA)
* July 9 – Gilbert Stuart, painter (aged 72; Boston, MA, USA)
* September 20 – George Bethune English, adventurer, marine and diplomat (aged 41; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 12 – William Lee, personal servant and slave of George Washington (aged 78; Hartford, CT, USA)
* December 22 – Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson (aged 61; Davidson County, TN, USA)
==External links==
* 1828 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5