Today in History for Year 1818

Months in Year 1818: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 1st - Official reopening of the White House
Jan 2nd - Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
Jan 2nd - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
Jan 21st - Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
Jan 30th - Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
Feb 5th - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
Feb 7th - 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician," begins (NYC)
Feb 12th - Chile gains independence from Spain
Feb 17th - Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
Mar 16th - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
Mar 18th - Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
Apr 4th - Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
Apr 5th - In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
Apr 7th - Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
Apr 14th - US Medical Corp forms
Apr 16th - Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
Apr 21st - Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna
Apr 28th - Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
May 4th - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
US President & General Andrew Jackson May 24th - Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
May 28th - 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
Jun 3rd - Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
Jun 10th - Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
Jul 11th - Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "Gadfly"
Aug 22nd - Grand duchy of Bathe forms
Sep 7th - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
Sep 23rd - Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
Sep 30th - Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England
Oct 8th - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
Oct 9th - Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
Oct 19th - US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
Oct 20th - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada
Oct 20th - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
Oct 24th - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)
Nov 21st - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
Dec 3rd - Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
Dec 24th - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
Dec 25th - 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
Dec 25th - Handel's Messiah, US premieres in Boston

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 101

Jan 11th - John Reese Kenly, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Jan 14th - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories)
Jan 17th - Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
Jan 18th - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist
Jan 28th - George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905
Jan 31st - William Raine Peck, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
Feb 6th - William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901
Feb 8th - Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
Feb 10th - Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
Feb 12th - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
Feb 14th - Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor (exact year unknown)
Feb 23rd - Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
Mar 6th - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
Mar 10th - George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
Mar 11th - John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Mar 12th - John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
Mar 13th - Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
Mar 15th - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
Mar 22nd - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Feb 14th) Mar 23rd - Don Carlos Buell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
Mar 25th - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Mar 27th - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
Mar 28th - Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902
Apr 4th - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
Apr 5th - Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 6th - Francis Henry Brown, composer
Apr 6th - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
Apr 8th - Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906)
Apr 14th - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
Apr 20th - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
Apr 22nd - Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)
Apr 23rd - James Anthony Froude, historian
Apr 23rd - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
Apr 25th - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
Apr 29th - Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
May 1st - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (May 5th) May 5th - Karl Marx, Trier, Prussia, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), (d. 1883)
May 20th - William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
May 25th - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian
May 27th - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
May 28th - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumter)
May 31st - John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
Jun 3rd - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
Jun 17th - Charles Francois Gounod, Paris France, opera composer (Faust)
Jun 17th - Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Netherlands/wife of William III
Jun 21st - Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
Jun 21st - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Jun 23rd - Simon Vissering, Dutch economist/minister of Finances (1879-81)
Jun 30th - Edward John Hopkins, composer
Jul 1st - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist
Jul 6th - Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
Jul 10th - John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Jul 14th - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
Jul 15th - Heinrich Esser, composer
Jul 18th - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
Jul 24th - Felix Godefroid, composer
Novelist Emily Jane Bronte (Jul 30th) Jul 30th - Emily Jane Bronte, Thornton England, novelist (Wuthering Heights), (d. 1848)
Jul 30th - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88)
Jul 31st - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
Aug 1st - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
Aug 2nd - [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major
Aug 3rd - HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect (New Stock exchange Antwerp)
Aug 4th - Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 7th - Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
Aug 13th - Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)
Aug 18th - William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
Aug 23rd - Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
Aug 30th - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Sep 7th - Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
Sep 12th - Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
Sep 13th - Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste)
Sep 16th - Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist
Sep 17th - Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
Sep 18th - Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Oct 4th - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
Oct 6th - Joseph Rummel, composer
Oct 8th - John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
Oct 15th - Irvin McDowell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Oct 18th - Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Oct 22nd - Leconte de Lisle, writer
Oct 25th - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [NS=Nov 6]
Oct 26th - Stefano Golinelli, composer
Oct 28th - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]
Nov 3rd - Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Nov 4th - Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
Nov 5th - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Nov 6th - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
Nov 7th - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
Nov 9th - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
Nov 22nd - Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
Nov 26th - Louis Lacombe, composer
Nov 29th - George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
Dec 4th - William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
Dec 12th - Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Dec 13th - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady (1861-65)
Dec 21st - Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
Dec 21st - Lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
Dec 23rd - David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
Dec 24th - James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
Dec 30th - James Cantey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1874

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 28 of 28

Jan 1st - Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87
Feb 1st - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer, dies at 74
Feb 13th - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
Feb 14th - John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61
Feb 15th - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
Feb 28th - Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
Mar 23rd - Nicolas Isouard, composer, dies at 42
Mar 25th - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
Mar 28th - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62
Apr 18th - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59
May 2nd - Herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55
May 7th - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer, dies at 70
May 8th - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
May 10th - Paul Revere, American patriot, dies
May 14th - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
May 26th - Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal/War Minister, dies
Jun 4th - John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44
Jun 12th - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
Jun 29th - Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22
Jul 28th - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
Aug 22nd - Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
Aug 28th - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
Sep 18th - Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
Oct 22nd - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
Oct 28th - Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73
Nov 17th - Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, dies
Dec 5th - Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60
Dec 31st - Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77