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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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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| ===Literature=== | ===Literature=== | ||
| ====Fiction==== | ====Fiction==== | ||
| - | *''[[Frankenstein]]'' published | + | * [[January 11]] – Percy Bysshe Shelley's ''[[Ozymandias]]'' is published pseudonymously in London. |
| - | *[[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." | + | * [[March 11]] – Mary Shelley's ''[[Frankenstein]]'' is published anonymously in London. |
| + | * [[July 3]] – [[Lord Byron]] begins work on his epic poem, [[Don Juan (Byron)|''Don Juan'']]. He dies in 1824 before he can finish the poem, after finishing 16 cantos and working on the 17th. | ||
| + | *The second enlarged edition of the ''[[The Family Shakespeare]]'' is published, an edited version of Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." | ||
| ====Non-fiction==== | ====Non-fiction==== | ||
| + | *''[[Considerations on the principal events of the French Revolution]]'' by Madame de Staël | ||
| ===Visual art=== | ===Visual art=== | ||
| *''[[Heads of the Executed (Géricault) |Severed Heads]]'' by Théodore Géricault | *''[[Heads of the Executed (Géricault) |Severed Heads]]'' by Théodore Géricault | ||
| *''[[Study of Truncated Limbs]]'' by Théodore Géricault | *''[[Study of Truncated Limbs]]'' by Théodore Géricault | ||
| *''[[Elijah in the Desert]]'' by Washington Allston | *''[[Elijah in the Desert]]'' by Washington Allston | ||
| - | *''[[Wanderer above the Sea of Fog]]'' (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich | + | *''[[Wanderer above the Sea of Fog]]'' by Caspar David Friedrich |
| + | *''[[Public and Private Buildings Executed by Sir John Soane]]'' by Joseph Gandy | ||
| ===Music=== | ===Music=== | ||
| ===Architecture=== | ===Architecture=== | ||
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| - | * [[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 (Byron)|''Don Juan'']]. He dies in [[1824]] before he can finish the poem, after finishing 16 [[canto]]s and working on the 17th. | ||
| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| * [[February 14]] – [[Frederick Douglass]] (his day of birth was never established; he adopted this date), American abolitionist author, statesman (d. [[1895]]) | * [[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]]) | + | * [[May 5]] – [[Karl Marx]], German political philosopher (d. 1883) |
| - | * [[June 17]] - [[Charles Gounod]], French composer (d. [[1893]]) | + | * [[June 17]] - [[Charles Gounod]], French composer (d. 1893) |
| - | * [[July 30]] - [[Emily Brontë]], British novelist (d. [[1848]]) | + | * [[July 30]] - [[Emily Brontë]], British novelist (d. 1848) |
| - | + | * [[November 9]] – [[Ivan Turgenev]], Russian writer (d. 1883) | |
| - | ** [[Jan Heemskerk]], 2-time Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. [[1897]]) | + | * [[April 10]] – [[Auguste Ambroise Tardieu]], French physician (d. 1879) |
| - | * [[August 11]] – [[Méry von Bruiningk]], Estonian democrat (d. [[1853]]) | + | * [[May 25]] – [[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss art historian (d. 1897) |
| - | * [[September 1]] – [[José María Castro Madriz]], first [[President of Costa Rica]], founder of the republic (d. [[1892]]) | + | * [[Giovanni Strazza]], Italian sculptor (d. 1875) |
| - | * [[September 12]] – [[Richard Jordan Gatling]], American inventor, gunsmith (d. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | * [[September 27]] – [[Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe]], German chemist (d. [[1884]]) | + | |
| - | * [[October 8]] – [[John Henninger Reagan]], American Confederate politician (d. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | * [[October 15]] – [[Irvin McDowell]], American general (d. [[1885]]) | + | |
| - | * [[October 18]] – [[Edward Ord]], U.S. Army officer (d. [[1883]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 5]] – [[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin Franklin Butler]], American lawyer, politician, and general (d. [[1893]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 9]] ([[October 28]] (O.S.)) – [[Ivan Turgenev]], Russian writer (d. [[1883]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 23]] – [[József Szlávy]], 6th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1900]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 29]] – [[George Brown (Canadian politician)|George Brown]], Canadian politician (d. [[1880]]) | + | |
| - | * [[December 13]] – [[Mary Todd Lincoln]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1882]]) | + | |
| - | * [[December 24]] – [[James Prescott Joule]], English physicist (d. [[1889]]) | + | |
| - | * [[December 27]] – [[J. Lawrence Smith]], American chemist (d. [[1883]]) | + | |
| - | * [[December 29]] – [[King Charles Richard]], English Lord (d. [[1878]]) | + | |
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| - | ===Date Unknown=== | + | |
| - | * [[Dimitrie Brătianu]], 15th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1892]]) | + | |
| - | * [[Francis Dutton]], Germany-born [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. [[1877]]) | + | |
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| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
| - | === January–June === | ||
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| - | * [[January 2]] – [[Martha Christina Tiahahu]], [[Moluccas|Moluccan]] freedom fighter, national heroine of Indonesia (b. [[1800]]) | ||
| - | * [[January 11]] – [[Johann David Wyss]], Swiss author (b. [[1743]]) | ||
| - | * [[February 5]] – [[Charles XIII of Sweden|Charles XIII/Charles II]], King of Sweden and Norway (b. [[1748]]) | ||
| - | * [[February 13]] – [[George Rogers Clark]], American Revolutionary leader (b. [[1752]]) | ||
| - | * [[February 15]] – [[Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]], Prussian general (b. [[1746]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 2]] – [[Herman Willem Daendels]], [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] (b. [[1762]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 10]] – [[Paul Revere]], American patriot, silversmith (b. [[1735]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 26]] – [[Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly]], Russian military commander (b. [[1761]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 12]] – [[Egwale Seyon]], Emperor of Ethiopia | ||
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| - | === July–December === | ||
| - | * [[August 12]] – [[Nikolay Novikov]], Russian writer (b. [[1744]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 22]] – [[Warren Hastings]], English [[Governor-General of India]] (b. [[1732]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 24]] – [[James Carr (Massachusetts politician)]], U.S. Congressman (b. [[1777]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 31]] – [[Arthur St. Clair]], American soldier, politician (b. [[1737]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 1]] – [[Robert Calder]], British naval officer (b. [[1745]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 9]] – [[Seymour Fleming]], British noblewoman (b. [[1758]]) | ||
| - | * [[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, politician (b. [[1765]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 17]] – [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], queen of [[George III of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1744]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 25]] – [[Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon]], [[Marshal of France]] (b. [[1754]]) | ||
| - | * Date unknown – [[Ghaliyya al-Wahhabiyya]], Saudi Arabian war heroine | ||
| + | *[[Abbé de Coulmier]], Catholic priest and abbot, and the director of the Charenton insane asylum (b. 1741) | ||
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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.
Contents |
Events
Art and culture
Literature
Fiction
- 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.
- The second enlarged edition of the The Family Shakespeare is published, an edited version of Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
Non-fiction
- Considerations on the principal events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël
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 by Caspar David Friedrich
- Public and Private Buildings Executed by Sir John Soane by Joseph Gandy
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 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- April 10 – Auguste Ambroise Tardieu, French physician (d. 1879)
- May 25 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (d. 1897)
- Giovanni Strazza, Italian sculptor (d. 1875)
Deaths
- Abbé de Coulmier, Catholic priest and abbot, and the director of the Charenton insane asylum (b. 1741)
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