1818
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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.
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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
Deaths
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.
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)
- Jan Heemskerk, 2-time Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
- August 11 – Méry von Bruiningk, Estonian democrat (d. 1853)
- September 1 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica, founder of the republic (d. 1892)
- 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 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 (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)
Date Unknown
- Dimitrie Brătianu, 15th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1892)
- Francis Dutton, Germany-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)
Deaths
January–June
- January 2 – Martha Christina Tiahahu, Moluccan freedom fighter, national heroine of Indonesia (b. 1800)
- January 11 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (b. 1743)
- February 5 – 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
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
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