Editing 1828 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 26]]
** English [[naturalist]] and explorer [[William John Burchell]] collects the only known specimen of ''[[Parabouchetia]] brasiliensis'', an exceptionally rare member of the nightshade family [[Solanaceae]], in central Brazil.
** The [[Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria]] is established in Russia to maintain the charitable institutions previously under the patronage of the late Empress.<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Nicholas I of Russia]]|title=О принятии Государем Императором под своё покровительство всех заведений, состоявших в ведении покойной Государыни Императрицы Марии Федоровны|trans-title=On the acceptance by the Sovereign Emperor under his patronage of all institutions run by the late Empress Maria Feodorovna|url=http://www.nlr.ru/e-res/law_r/search.php?part=281&regim=3|edition=2nd|work=Полное собрание законов Российской империи|publisher=Printing House of Section II, His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery|year=1830|volume=III|orig-year=1828|issue=2379|pages=948–949}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] – [[Greek War of Independence]]: the [[London Protocol (1828)|London Protocol]] entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty encompassing the [[Morea]] and the [[Cyclades]].
* [[November 12]] – [[Anouvong]], ruler of the [[Kingdom of Vientiane]], is deposed and the kingdom is annexed by Siam. During the war, the city of Vientiane is obliterated by Siamese forces.
* [[December 1]] – [[Decembrist revolution (Argentina)]]: [[Juan Lavalle]], returning to [[Buenos Aires]] with troops that fought in the [[Cisplatine War]], deposes the provincial governor [[Manuel Dorrego]], reigniting the [[Argentine Civil Wars]].
* [[December 3]] – [[1828 United States presidential election]]: [[Andrew Jackson]] is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent John Quincy Adams in a landslide.
* [[December 9]] – An attempt to assassinate Gran Colombia's President [[Simon Bolívar]] fails while he is visiting Jamaica. Bolivar accepts a last-minute invitation to be elsewhere and his servant, hired by the Spanish royal government to kill Bolivar, kills Bolivar's paymaster by mistake.<ref>{{cite book|last=Masur|first=Gerhard|title=Simón Bolívar|year=1948|publisher=[[University of New Mexico Press]]|isbn=978-0-8263-0131-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/simonbolivar0000masu_a4j3}}</ref>
* [[December 20]] – The U.S. State of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] 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 sixth public medical school to be established.
* [[December 28]] – The province of [[Echigo]], Japan, is hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 1,500 people.
* [[December 30]] – Publication (begun on January 14) of [[Franz Schubert]]'s [[song cycle]] ''[[Winterreise]]'' is concluded posthumously.