[caption id=“attachment_1469” align=“alignleft” width=“366”] Seminole Indians (courtesy of thedailycheck.net)[/caption]

In the year 1818, the reign of the Bernadotte begins in Sweden (Feb 5), Chile proclaims its independence from Spain (Feb 12), General Andrew Jackson and his American army invade Florida (Mar 15), Stars & Stripes is adopted as the flag of the United States, at the time with 20 stars (Apr 4), the justification of invading Florida is discussed in the U.S. Congress (Jul 15), the boundary between the U.S. and British North America is established as the 49th parallel (Oct 20), the Christmas carol Silent Night is first performed, near Salzburg, Austria (Dec 24), the First Seminole War between U.S. troops and the Seminole tribe in Florida goes on, leading later to Spain ceding Florida - and all these fine people were born:

1818-0103 Henrik Johan Holmberg* naturalist/ mineralogist/ethnographer  - Kökar, Åland, GD of Finland (1864/46) 1818-0109 Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon* sculptor/photographer - La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France (1881/63) 1818-0114 Zachris Topelius* journalist/author/historian - GD of Finland (1898/80) 1818-0204 Joshua Norton* self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States - London, England (1880/61) 1818-0213 Angelica Singleton Van Buren* (b Singleton) heiress/daughter-in-law of Martin Van Buren/acting First Lady - Wedgefield, SC USA (1877/59) 1818-02 1818-0306 William Claflin* politician/industrialist/ philanthropist - Milford, MA USA (1905/86) 1818-0310 1818-0311 Henry Jacob Bigelow* physician/surgeon - Boston, MA USA (1890/72) 1818-0311 Marius Petipa* ballet dancer/choreographer/“the father of classic ballet” - Marseille, France (1910/92) 1818-0311 Henri Sainte-Claire Deville* French chemist - St Thomas, Danish West Indies (1881/63) 1818-0322 John Ainsworth Horrocks* pastoralist/settler in Australia - Preston, Lancashire, England (1846/28) 1818-0416 Charles J. Folger* lawyer/politician/U.S. Secretary of the Treasury - Nantucket, MA USA (1884/66) 1818-0429 Alexander II* of Russia - Moscow, Russian Empire (1881/62) 1818-0501 1818-0505 Karl Marx* economist/revolutionary socialist - Trier, Kingdom of Prussia (1883/64) 1818-0510 1818-0520 William Fargo* pioneer expressman (American Express Company and Wells Fargo)/Mayor of Buffalo - Pompey, NY USA (1881/63) 1818-0525 Jacob Burckhardt* historian - Basel, Switzerland (1897/79) 1818-0527 Amelia Bloomer* dress reformer/ women’s rights activist - Homer, NY USA (1894/76) 1818-0531 1818-0617 Charles-Francois Gounod* composer - Paris, France (1893/75) 1818-0628 Angelo Secchi* Italian Catholic priest/astronomer/a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy - Reggio Emilia (1878/59) 1818-0630 1818-0718 Louis Gerhard De Geer* statesman/ writer - Finspång Castle, Sweden (1896/78) 1818-0722 Thomas Stevenson* lighthouse designer/ meteorologist/father of Robert Louis Stevenson - Edinburgh, Scotland (1887/68) 1818-0730 Emily Brontë* novelist (Wuthering Heights)/poet - Thornton, Yorkshire, England (1848/30) 1818-0801 Maria Mitchell* astronomer - Nantucket, MA USA (1889/70) 1818-0802 Prince Alexander of the Netherlands* son of King William II/ nephew of Tsar Nicholas I - Soestdijk, Netherlands (1848/29) 1818-0813 Lucy Stone* orator/abolitionist/suffragist - West Brookfield, MA USA (1893/75) 1818-0912 Richard Jordan Gatling* inventor - Hertford County, NC USA (1903/84) 1818-0920 1818-0927 Carl Albert Edelfelt* Swedish architect/to Finland at age 14/father of Albert Edelfelt - Karlshamn, Sweden-Norway (1869/50) 1818-1001 1818-1002 Conrad Wilhelm Hase* German architect - Einbeck, Lower Saxony (1902/83) 1818-1008 John Henninger Reagan* lawyer/politician active in Texas - Gatlinburg, TN USA (1905/86) 1818-1012 Maximilian Cercha* painter/ drawer - Kraków, Poland (1907/88) 1818-1015 Irvin McDowell* army officer - Columbus, OH USA (1885/66) 1818-1018 Pekka Aschan* priest/ math teacher/translator - Laukaa, GD of Finland (1896/77) 1818-1018 Francis Dutton* British-Australian politician/Premier of South Australia /to Australia at age 20 - Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony (1877/58) 1818-1022 Leconte de Lisle* poet - Saint-Paul, Réunion, Kingdom of France (1894/75) 1818-1026 Louis Buffet* lawyer/ politician/statesman - Mirecourt, Kingdom of France (1898/79) 1818-1031 1818-1105 Benjamin Butler* major general of the Union Army/ politician/businessman - Deerfield, NH USA (1893/74) 1818-1109 Ivan Turgenev* novelist/playwright/translator - Oryol, Russian Empire (1883/64) 1818-1129 George Brown* Scottish-Canadian journalist/ politician - Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (1880/61) 1818-1213 Mary Todd Lincoln* First Lady - Lexington, KY USA (1882/63) 1818-1221 Amalia of Oldenburg* the first queen of modern Greece as the spouse of King Otto - Oldenburg, GD of Oldenburg (1875/56) 1818-1224 James Prescott Joule* physicist/ mathematician/ brewer - Salford, Lancashire, England (1889/70) 1818-0 1818-0 1818-0 Updated 2025-0128 Helsinki Search for another year here