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1818

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 - 1818 - 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in Topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of states

Events

• February 12 - Chile gains its independence from Spain
• March 11 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published
• March 22 - Easter Sunday fell on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early: 2285.
• April 4 - The United States 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.
• October 20 - A convention between the U.S and Great Britain establishes the northern boundary as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle
• December 3 - Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
• December 24 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber
• December 25 - The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria).

• Karl XIV Johan becomes King of Sweden.
• Anglo-Chinese College founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca.

Year in Topic

• 1818 in literature
• 1818 in music
• 1818 in science

Births

• April 8 - King Christian IX of Denmark
• April 29 - Emperor Alexander II of Russia
• May 5 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher
• July 30 - Emily Brontë, British novelist
• September 27 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist
• October 18 - Edward Ord, US army officer
• December 13 - Mary Todd Lincoln, future First Lady of the United States
• Frederick Douglass

Deaths

• May 10 - Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot
• October 28 - Abigail Adams, first lady
• Johann David Wyss, author of Swiss Family Robinson

Heads of states

• China - Jiaqing Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (February 9, 1796 to September 2, 1820)
• Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
• France - Louis XVIII, King of France (1814-1824)
• Norway -
  1. Charles II, King of Sweden and King of Norway (November 4, 1814 to February 5, 1818)
  2. Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Russia - Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)
• Spain - Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1813-1833)
• United States - James Monroe, President of the United States (March 4, 1817 to March 4, 1825)

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