The Ultimate 1818 - American History Information Guide and Reference

Years: 1815 1816 1817 - 1818 - 1819 1820 1821
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1818 is a common year starting on Thursday.

Events

January 3 21:52 UTC - Venus occulted Jupiter. It was the last occultation of a planet by an other planet before November 22nd, 2065. Unfortunately no observation reports from this event visible in the Pacific area are known.
February 12 - Chile gains its independence from Spain
March 11 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published
March 22 - Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early: 2285.
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.
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)
The Savannah is the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean