Centuries: Year in Review 19th Century (18th century - 19th century - 20th century)
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 - 1833 - 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838
Births
- February 11 - Melville Weston Fuller 8th chief justice of US.
- October 21 - Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize
- December 20 - Dr. Samuel Mudd, doctor to John Wilkes Booth
Deaths
Events
- Charles Babbage described his Analytical engine. (see also History of computing)
- The dawn of biochemistry : discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme Payen.