1818
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'''1818''' is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 3 21:52 UTC - Venus (planet)|Venus Occultation|occulted Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter. It was the last occultation of a planet by an other planet before November 22nd, 2065. Unfortunately no observation reports from this event visible in the Pacific area are known.
February 12 - Chile gains its independence from Spain
March 11 - Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' is published
March 22 - Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early: 2285.
April 4 - The Congress of the United States|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.
September 7 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
October 20 - A convention between the United States|U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle
November 11 Establishment of Anglo-Chinese College
December 3 - Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
December 24 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Gruber|Franz Xaver Gruber and vicar Joseph Mohn when the church organs fail
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.
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)
Births
April 8 - King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
April 29 - Emperor Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
May 5 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
June 17 - Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
July 30 - Emily Brontë, British novelist (d. 1848)
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 polititian (d. 1880)
December 13 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
December 24 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist author and statesman (d. 1895)
Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
Deaths
February 5 - Charles XIII of Sweden|Charles XIII/Charles II, King of Sweden and Norway (b.1748)
February 15 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (b. 1743)
May 10 - Paul Revere, American patriot and silversmith (b. 1735)
October 28 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
October 28 - Henry Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (b. 1765)
November 17 - Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)
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