| 146041 | December 28 | Event | 893 – An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia. |
| 146042 | December 28 | Event | 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated. |
| 146043 | December 28 | Event | 1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins. |
| 146044 | December 28 | Event | 1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. |
| 146045 | December 28 | Event | 1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital. |
| 146046 | December 28 | Event | 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto). |
| 146047 | December 28 | Event | 1824 – The Bathurst War comes to an end with the surrender of the Wiradjuri. |
| 146048 | December 28 | Event | 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. |
| 146049 | December 28 | Event | 1835 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army. |
| 146050 | December 28 | Event | 1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded. |
| 146051 | December 28 | Event | 1836 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico. |
| 146052 | December 28 | Event | 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state. |
| 146053 | December 28 | Event | 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. |
| 146054 | December 28 | Event | 1879 – Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75. |
| 146055 | December 28 | Event | 1885 – Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India. |
| 146056 | December 28 | Event | 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. |
| 146057 | December 28 | Event | 1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays. |
| 146058 | December 28 | Event | 1902 – The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden. |
| 146059 | December 28 | Event | 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000. |
| 146060 | December 28 | Event | 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco. |
| 146061 | December 28 | Event | 1918 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons. |
| 146062 | December 28 | Event | 1935 – Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union. |
| 146063 | December 28 | Event | 1941 – World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences. |
| 146064 | December 28 | Event | 1943 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona. |
| 146065 | December 28 | Event | 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey. |
| 146066 | December 28 | Event | 1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami. |
| 146067 | December 28 | Event | 1956 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation. |
| 146068 | December 28 | Event | 1958 – "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium. |
| 146069 | December 28 | Event | 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea. |
| 146070 | December 28 | Event | 1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. |