Editing 1828

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== Events ==
* January 1 - [[Indigenous Australian Genocide]]: in reprisal for the abduction of a clerk's daughter, eleven natives were killed by a detachment of soldiers at Mill Creek.
** Also on that date, in Tasmania at Cape Grim, an employee working for the Van Diemen's Land Company named Richard Frederick told the captain of the Caroline's wife that he and four shepherds made a surprise attack on a group of aboriginal people at Cape Grim and killed twelve of them before retreating to their ship. The Caroline captain's wife wrote about the incident in her diary on January 19th and the manager of the Van Diemen's Land Company acknowledged what happened, but claimed that since "the guns misfired", there couldn't have been any casualties.
* February 10 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: when a group of four shepherds working for Edward Curr of the Van Diemen's Land Company came across a hunting party, they killed 30 people and dumped their corpses off a cliff. When lieutenant-governor [[George Arthur]] received news of the massacre by an officer named Alexander Goldie nine months later, he ordered George Augustus Robinson to investigate the incident. Robinson interviewed two of the killers and they confirmed the death toll and the location of the massacre, but claimed that only one woman had been killed. Robinson then interviewed a female aboriginal witness, who claimed that the vast majority of the victims were women.
* March 19 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: in retaliation of the killing of a stock-keeper, a reprisal party came across an aboriginal camp at Bullock Hunting Ground, where they killed four men, nine women and a child.
* April 2 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Eastern Tiers, in reprisal for the murder of a stock-keeper named Henry Beames, a magistrate named James Simpson sent a party of colonists to hunt down the killers. The party came across an aboriginal camp and prepared to open fire. When the natives' dogs gave the alarm, the aboriginal people ran in an attempt to hide, but the illumination from the campfire gave away their position and they were thus gunned down by the colonists. The incident was reported on April 5th in Hobart, but there was no mention of the massacre. Two years later, Dr. Turnbull claimed that there was no massacre and that "no bodies were found". In 1835, a journalist named Henry Melville provided an account from an eyewitness. The eyewitness claimed that after the massacre, they retrieved some waddies and spears and burned an infant to death.
* August 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: in the northern territory, at Coniston, more than 50 Walpiri people are massacred by a police party in reprisal for the murder of a dingo trapper and a stockman.
* August 11 - [[Ranavalona I]] becomes Queen of Madagascar.
* October 23 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: after a party of Oyster Bay warriors killed three civilians in two separate attacks, a reprisal party came across a campsite near Cockatoo Valley and killed approximately thirteen people.
* December 6 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: when a party of colonists were tracking down a group of natives, they arrived at an encampment near Tooms Lake and surrounded the area. According to one of the guides, as the colonists approached the camp, one of the natives spotted them and shouted an alarm. As the warriors retrieved their spears in defense, the colonists immediately fired upon them. Many of the natives were killed and two of them, a woman and her son, were taken prisoner by the colonists.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 28 - [[Boone Helm]]
== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* September 22 - [[Shaka Zulu]]