1818

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.

January 3 21:52 UTC - Venus 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.
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.
May 11 - Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
September 7 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
September 23 - Formal installation of border markers for the European 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).

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).
Hare School was established.

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