What happened on 28 August?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1833 Abolition of slavery in British Empire The Slavery Abolition Act receives royal assent; it takes effect on 1 August 1834, with 'apprenticeship' lasting until 1838, and ends slavery across most of the British Empire.
2. 1963 March on Washington / 'I Have a Dream' Martin Luther King Jr delivers his speech to 250,000 civil-rights demonstrators.
3. 1749 Born: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German polymath; author of Faust, Werther and many scientific works.
4. 1833 Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Three days before Wilberforce dies he learns that the Act abolishing slavery across most of the British Empire will pass; slave-owners receive £20 million compensation, the enslave
5. 1955 Lynching of Emmett Till 14-year-old African-American murdered in Mississippi; his mother insists on an open casket; photo galvanises civil rights movement.
6. 1844 Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo Adventure novel of imprisonment, escape, and elaborate revenge.
7. 1879 Cetshwayo captured — and received by the Queen Run to ground in the Ngome forest, the king is exiled to Cape Town while his kingdom is carved into thirteen puppet chiefdoms that promptly fall into civil war. In 1882 he is broug
8. 1604 Treaty of London ends the Anglo-Spanish War A year after Elizabeth's death, the new king James I makes the peace she never would: England stops backing the Dutch rebels and raiding the treasure fleets, Spain drops any claim
9. 1850 Wagner's Lohengrin The swan-knight opera, premiered by Liszt at Weimar while Wagner was in exile — its bridal chorus is still played at weddings.