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| '''1818''' (MDCCCXVIII) was the the 818th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1810s decade. | '''1818''' (MDCCCXVIII) was the the 818th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1810s decade. | ||
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| + | *[[Abbé de Coulmier]] (1741 – June 4, 1818) | ||
| + | *[[Public and Private Buildings Executed by Sir John Soane]] by Joseph Gandy | ||
| + | *[[Auguste Ambroise Tardieu]] (1818 – 1879) | ||
| + | *[[Jacob Burckhardt]] (1818–1897) | ||
| + | *[[Considerations on the principal events of the French Revolution]] (1818) by Necker, Anne Louise Germaine | ||
| + | *[[Giovanni Strazza]] (1818-1875) | ||
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| == Events == | == Events == | ||
| * [[January 11]] – [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s ''[[Ozymandias]]'' is published pseudonymously in London. | * [[January 11]] – [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s ''[[Ozymandias]]'' is published pseudonymously in London. | ||
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1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was the the 818th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1810s decade.
- Abbé de Coulmier (1741 – June 4, 1818)
- Public and Private Buildings Executed by Sir John Soane by Joseph Gandy
- Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818 – 1879)
- Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897)
- Considerations on the principal events of the French Revolution (1818) by Necker, Anne Louise Germaine
- Giovanni Strazza (1818-1875)
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Events
- January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias is published pseudonymously in London.
- March 11 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published anonymously in London.
- July 3 – Lord Byron begins work on his epic poem, Don Juan. He dies in 1824 before he can finish the poem, after finishing 16 cantos and working on the 17th.
Art and culture
Literature
Fiction
- Frankenstein published
- Thomas Bowdler publishes a censored version of Shakespeare, the Family Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
Non-fiction
Visual art
- Severed Heads by Théodore Géricault
- Study of Truncated Limbs by Théodore Géricault
- Elijah in the Desert by Washington Allston
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich
Music
Architecture
Births
- February 14 – Frederick Douglass (his day of birth was never established; he adopted this date), American abolitionist author, statesman (d. 1895)
- 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)
- November 9 (October 28 (O.S.)) – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
Deaths
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