tries to invade Paraguay, reaching the northern city of Fuerte Olimpo, but the planned invasion is immediately cancelled. May 26 – Supposed feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany. June 3 – Gran Colombia–Peru War: President Simón Bolívar declares war on Peru. June 23 – King Miguel I of Portugal overthrows his niece Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars. July–September July 4 – Lord William Bentinck arrives at Calcutta (now Kolkata) to begin his administration as the new Governor-General of India, on behalf of King George IV of the United Kingdom. July 5 – The British weekly magazine, The Spectator is founded by Robert Stephen Rintoul. August 11 – William Corder is hanged at Bury St Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year earlier. August 27 – South America: Empire of Brazil and United Provinces of the Río de lá Plata (Today Argentina) recognize the independence of Uruguay, causing the end of the Cisplatine War. Simón Bolívar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia. September 17 – A typhoon kills approximately 10,000 people in Kyūshū, Japan. September 25 – Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar. September 29 – Russo-Turkish War (1828–29): Varna is taken by the Russian army. 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. November 11 – Greek War of Independence: the 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 20 – The U.S. State of 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