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	Cp	18th century
	C	19th century
	Cf	20th century
	Yp1	1815
	Yp2	1816
	Yp3	1817
	Year	1818
	Ya1	1819
	Ya2	1820
	Ya3	1821
	Dp3	1780s
	Dp2	1790s
	Dp1	1800s
	D	1810s
	Dn1	1820s
	Dn2	1830s
	Dn3	1840s

1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar .

EVENTS

Occulted Jupiter . It was the last occultation of a planet by another planet before November 22nd, 2065 . Unfortunately no observation reports from this event visible in the Pacific area are known.

February 12 - Chile proclamates its independence from Spain .

March 11 - Mary Shelley 's '' Frankenstein '' is published

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April 4 - The U.S. 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.

September 7 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway , in Trondheim .

September 23 - Formal installation of border markers for the territory of Moresnet .

October 20 - A convention between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake Of The Woods to the Rocky Mountains , also creating the Northwest Angle .

November 11 - Establishment of Anglo-Chinese College .

December 3 - Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. State .

December 24 - " Silent Night " composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and vicar Joseph Mohn when the church organs fail.

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 .

Lord Hastings, governor-general of India, gives approval to Sir Stamford Raffles to establish trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore ).

BIRTHS

March 22 - John Ainsworth Horrocks , English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846 )

April 8 - King Christian IX Of Denmark (d. 1906 )

April 17 - Emperor Alexander II Of Russia (d. 1881 )

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 )

September 27 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , German chemist (d. 1884 )

October 8 - John Henninger Reagan , American Confederate politician (d. 1905 )

October 18 - Edward Ord , U.S. Army officer (d. 1883 )

November 9 ( October 28 (O.S.)) - Ivan Turgenev , Russian writer (d. 1883 )

November 29 - George Brown , Canadian polititian (d. 1880 )

December 13 - Mary Todd Lincoln , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1882 )

December 24 - James Prescott Joule , British physicist (d. 1889 )

Frederick Douglass , American abolitionist author and statesman (d. 1895 )

Angelo Secchi , Italian astronomer (d. 1878 )

DEATHS

February 5 - Charles XIII/Charles II , King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1748 )

February 15 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst Zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen , Prussian general (b. 1746 )

March 4 - Johann David Wyss , Swiss author (b. 1743 )

March 25 - Henry Lee one writer of Declaration of Independence, governor of Virginia, and delegate to Constitutional Convention

May 10 - Paul Revere , American patriot and silversmith (b. 1735 )

June 3 - Egwale Seyon , Emperor of Ethiopia.

October 28 - Abigail Adams , First Lady Of The United States (b. 1744 )

October 28 - Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke , duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (b. 1765 )

November 17 - Princess Charlotte Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , queen of George III Of The United Kingdom (b. 1744 )

December 25 - Dominique Catherine De Pérignon , Marshal Of France (b. 1754 )