Major Events
- Apr 5 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
- Jul 11 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"
- Nov 21 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
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1818 in Sport
- Oct 8 Jack Broughton designed padded gloves first used in a competitive boxing match between 2 unnamed English boxers at Aix-la-Chapelle in France
Did You Know?
Christmas carol "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria
Frederick Douglass
Alexander II
Karl Marx
Emily Brontë
Richard Jordan Gatling
Benjamin ButlerMore People Born in 1818
Paul Revere
Abigail AdamsMore 1818 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1818
- Sep 29 Inventor Samuel Morse (27) weds Lucretia Walker in Concord, New Hampshire
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
James Monroe
Louis XVIII
Robert Jenkinson