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* 1828 – Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and social activist, founder of the Red Cross, Nobel laureate ( d. 1910 )
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* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
* Cisplatine War ( 1825 – 1828 ): Armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or " Eastern Shore " between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces ' emancipation from Spain.
The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing ( The King's Library ) in 1823 – 1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833 – 1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery.
One Pipiolo leader from the south, Ramón Freire, rode in and out of the presidency several times ( 1823 – 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830 ) but could not sustain his authority.
The Blackstone Canal ( finished in 1828 ) in Massachusetts and Rhode Island fulfilled a similar role in the early industrial revolution between 1828 – 48.
From May 1828, until February 1829, he traveled with Roderick Impey Murchison ( 1792 – 1871 ) to the south of France ( Auvergne volcanic district ) and to Italy.
Following the Ottoman Empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828 – 29, in 1833 Russia pressured the Ottomans to sign the Treaty of Hunkiar Iskelesi — which required the straits to be closed to warships of non-Black Sea powers at Russia's request.
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Another remnant led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay formed the National Republicans in 1828 ; It held its first convention in late 1831 in Baltimore.
In 1828 Sir David Wilkie wrote from Madrid that he felt himself in the presence of a new power in art as he looked at the works of Velázquez, and at the same time found a wonderful affinity between this artist and the British school of portrait painters, especially Henry Raeburn.
The following are some of the early citizens elected to represent St. Francois County in the Missouri House of Representatives: Henry Poston ( 1826 ); David Murphy ( 1828 ); Corbin Alexander ( 1830, 1832 ).
Wollaston was too ill to deliver his final Bakerian in 1828 and dictated it to Henry Warburton who read it on 20 November.
The all-time Commons record for non-stop speaking, six hours, was set by Henry Brougham in 1828, though this was not a filibuster.
" Fred R. Shapiro, in The Yale Book of Quotations ( 2006 ), disputes the attribution based on a claim that it first appeared in a book published in 1935, but it is ascribed to Wilkes in Henry Brougham's Historical Sketches ( 1844 ), related from Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, who claims to have been present, as well as in Charles Marsh's Clubs of London ( 1828 ).
Francis and Emma had other children: Captain John Brooke Johnson ( 1823 – 1868 ) ( later Brooke Brooke ), Mary Anna Johnson ( b. 1824 ), Harriet Helena Johnson ( b. 1826 ), Charlotte Frances Johnson ( b. 1828 ), Captain ( William ) Frederic Johnson ( b. 1830 ), Emma Lucy Johnson ( b. 1832 ), Margaret Henrietta Johnson ( 1834 – 1845 ), Georgianna Brooke Johnson ( 1836 – 1854 ), James Stuart Johnson ( 1839 – 1840 ), and Henry Stuart Johnson ( b. 1841 ).
Some of the ships built by Bergh and Westervelt were Hope ( 1825 ), Henry IV ( 1826 ), Charlemagne ( 1828 ), Albany ( 1831 ), Philadelphia ( 1832 ), Utica ( 1833 ), Westminster ( 1835 ), and Toronto ( 1835 ).
He married the daughter of John Henry Johnstone ( 1749 – 1828 ), a popular tenor and stage Irishman ; she died in 1851.
Captain Henry Rous further examined the Tweed River in 1828, and incorrectly identified the present-day Point Danger, as the Point Danger of James Cook and recorded the name ‘ Cook ’ s Island ’ rather than ‘ Turtle Island ’ of Oxley.
Henry met an English woman, Henriette Carey, whose family had been living in Dijon, and married her in 1828.
There are two memoirs of his life, one by William Field ( 1828 ), the other, with his works and his letters, by John Johnstone ( 1828 ); and Edmund Henry Barker published in 1828-1829 two volumes of Parriana, a confused mass of information on Parr and his friends.
* Lord Henry FitzRoy ( 9 April 1770 – 7 June 1828 ), clergyman ; he married Caroline Pigot ( died 1 January 1835 ) on 10 September 1800 and had five children.
In 1828, Maverick traveled to Winchester, Virginia to study law under Henry St. George Tucker, Sr ..
After settling in Plymouth, James inherited his father's position as sheriff and Mercy bore him five sons, James ( 1757 – 1821 ), Winslow ( 1759 – 1791 ), Charles ( 1762 – 1784 ), Henry ( 1764 – 1828 ), and George ( 1766 – 1800 ).
In 1828 he married Lydia A. Rickey ; they had a daughter, Frances, in 1830 and a son, Henry, in 1834.
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