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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]], Catholic priest and abbot, and the director of the Charenton insane asylum (b. 1741) 
-*[[Public and Private Buildings Executed by Sir John Soane]] by Joseph Gandy  
-*[[Auguste Ambroise Tardieu]], French physician (d. 1879)  
-*[[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss art historian (d. 1897)  
-*''[[Considerations on the principal events of the French Revolution]]'' (1818) by [[Madame de Staël]] 
-*[[Giovanni Strazza]], Italian sculptor (d. 1875) 
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== Events == == 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 (Byron)|''Don Juan'']]. He dies in [[1824]] before he can finish the poem, after finishing 16 [[canto]]s and working on the 17th.  
== 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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== 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]] ([[October 28]] (O.S.)) – [[Ivan Turgenev]], Russian writer (d. [[1883]])+* [[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 == == Deaths ==
 +*[[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 3Lord 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

Visual art

Music

Architecture

Births

Deaths

  • Abbé de Coulmier, Catholic priest and abbot, and the director of the Charenton insane asylum (b. 1741)




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