Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1818
Birthdays
- January 14 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)
- January 28 - George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- March 6 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- March 11 - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1910)
- March 15 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
- March 22 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
- March 28 - Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
- April 4 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
- April 6 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
- April 8 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
- April 8 - King Christian IX of Denmark, (d. 1906)
- April 14 - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
- April 20 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
- May 5 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
- May 20 - William Fargo, co-founder of Wells
- May 25 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
- May 27 - Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
- May 28 - Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
- May 31 - John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
- June 3 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
- June 17 - Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
- June 17 - Sophie of Württemberg, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)
- July 1 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
- July 6 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
- July 18 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
- July 30 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
- August 1 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- August 13 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893)
- August 30 - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
- September 7 - Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
- September 12 - Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903)
- September 27 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
- October 8 - John Henninger Reagan, American politician (d. 1905)
- October 22 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894)
- October 28 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- November 5 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- November 7 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
- November 9 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- December 13 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
- December 21 - Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece (d. 1875)
- December 24 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
Deaths
- February 13 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
- February 15 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
- March 25 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
- May 10 - Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735)
- May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
- May 26 - Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
- June 12 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
- July 28 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
- August 22 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
- August 28 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
- September 1 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
- October 28 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
- November 17 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (b. 1744)
Events
- January 2 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
- February 5 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- February 12 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence of Chile near Concepción.
- March 16 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada
- April 4 - The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
- April 5 - In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement
- August 26 - The first Illinois Constitution is signed in Kaskaskia, Illinois, the first state capital of Illinois.
- September 7 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
- September 23 - Border demarcation markers for Neutral Moresnet are formally installed.
- October 20 - The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
- December 3 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
- December 25 - The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
|
|
|
|
