1818

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Years:	1815 1816 1817 – 1818 – 1819 1820 1821

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Year 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1818 1.1 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January–June 2.2 July–December 3 Deaths

Events of 1818

• January 1 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.
• January 3 – At 21:52 UTC, Venus occults Jupiter. It is the last occultation of a planet by another planet before November 22, 2065.
• February 12 – Chile proclaims its independence from Spain.
• March 22 – Easter Day in Western Christianity falls on its earliest possible date in this year. In Western Christianity, Easter will not occur on this date again until 2285.
• April 4 – The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
• April 7 – Brooks Brothers, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, opens its first store on the northeast corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in New York City, where the South Street Seaport now stands.
• April 14–1832 August 9 – U.S. Survey of the Coast operations suspended.
• May 11 – Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• August 1 – Separate Topographical Bureau of the US War Department.
• September 7 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
• September 23 – Border markers are formally installed for the European territory of Moresnet.
• October 20 – The Treaty of 1818 between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary as the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.
• November 11 – Anglo-Chinese College is founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca (later renamed Ying Wa College).
• December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
• December 24 – Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr.

Undated

• Lord Hastings, governor-general of India, gives approval to Sir Stamford Raffles to establish trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore).
• Andrew Jackson invades Florida.
• The Third Anglo-Maratha War ends, resulting in the breakup of the Maratha Empire and the loss of Maratha independence to the British.
• Shaka starts to rule.
• The British East India Company controls territory occupied by 180 million Indians.
• Old Vic founded (as Royal Coburg Hall).
• The first edition of the Farmer's Almanac is published.
• Besses o'the Barn Band was formed in Whitefield, a small village sat between Manchester and Bury

Births

1818 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1818 MDCCCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2571
Armenian calendar	1267 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-26 – -25
Bengali calendar	1225
Berber calendar	2768
Buddhist calendar	2362
Burmese calendar	1180
Byzantine calendar	7326 – 7327
Chinese calendar	丁丑年十一月廿五日 (4454/4514-11-25) — to — 戊寅年十二月初五日 (4455/4515-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1534 – 1535
Ethiopian calendar	1810 – 1811
Hebrew calendar	5578 – 5579
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1874 – 1875
- Shaka Samvat	1740 – 1741
- Kali Yuga	4919 – 4920
Holocene calendar	11818
Iranian calendar	1196 – 1197
Islamic calendar	1233 – 1234
Japanese calendar	Bunka 15Bunsei 1 (文政元年)
Korean calendar	4151
Thai solar calendar	2361

January–June

• January 30 – Artúr Görgey, Hungarian military general and politician (d. 1916)
• February 14 – Frederick Douglass (his day of birth was never established; he adopted this date), American abolitionist author and statesman (d. 1895)
• February 18 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom writer (d. 1870)
• March 15 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
• March 22 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
• April 4 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
• April 8 – King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
• April 17 – Emperor Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
• April 19 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician (d. 1883)
• May 5 – Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
• June 17
  • Sophie of Württemberg, Dutch queen (d. 1877)
  • Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
• June 18 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)

July–December

• July 18 – Celadon Leeds Daboll, American merchant and inventor (d. 1866)
• July 22 – J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (d. 1891)
• July 30 – Emily Brontë, British novelist (d. 1848)
• September 1 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
• September 27 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
• October 8 – John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (d. 1905)
• October 18 – Edward Ord, U.S. Army officer (d. 1883)
• November 9 (October 28 (O.S.)) – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
• November 29 – George Brown, Canadian politician (d. 1880)
• December 13 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
• December 24 – James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)

See also Category: 1818 births.

Deaths

• January 11 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (b. 1743)
• February 5 – Charles XIII/Charles II, King of Sweden and Norway (b.1748)
• February 13 – George Rogers Clark, American Revolutionary leader
• February 15 – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
• May 10 – Paul Revere, American patriot and silversmith (b. 1735)
• May 26 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander
• June 12 – Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
• August 24 – James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (b. 1777)
• September 1 – Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
• October 5 – Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1784)
• October 28 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• October 28 – Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (b. 1765)
• November 17 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)
• December 18 – Lady Elizabeth Barton (murdered)
• December 25 – Dominique Catherine de Pérignon, Marshal of France (b. 1754)

See also Category: 1818 deaths.