1818

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 - 1818 - 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823

Events

• February 12 - Chile gains its independence from Spain
• March 11 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published
• April 4 - The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
• December 3 - Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
• December 24 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber
• December 25 - The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf[?], Austria).

• Karl XIV Johan becomes King of Sweden.
• Anglo-Chinese College founded by Robert Morrison[?] in Malacca.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1818 in literature:

Births

• April 8 - King Christian IX of Denmark
• April 29 - Emperor Alexander II of Russia
• May 5 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher
• September 27 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist
• Frederick Douglass
• July 30 - Emily Bronte, British novelist

Deaths

• May 10 - Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot
• Johann David Wyss, author of Swiss Family Robinson[?]