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August 12 – 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis, between the United States and the Council of Three Fires tribes, is signed in St. Louis. August 14 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean, ruling it from the Cape Colony.
20 February – Preston becomes the first English town outside London with gas lighting publicly available, promoted by the Jesuit priest Joseph Dunn. 18 March – income tax abolished. 24 April – Lord Byron flees Britain to escape a growing scandal, his failed marriage and his growing debts.
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August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. November – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election. November 7 – Jonathan Jennings is sworn in as the first governor of Indiana. December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state ( see History of Indiana ).
Events. Known as the "Year Without A Summer" in the northern hemisphere because of global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that happened in 1815. February 12 – Fire almost destroyed the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. March 23 – Law frees serfs in Estonia.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
- 1818
January – The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature launched in Baltimore with poetry, literary criticism and essays by John Neal and others. [1] April – Lord Byron leaves England for good to tour continental Europe. April 14 – Lord Byron 's poems "A Sketch from Private Life" and "Fare Thee Well", about his separation from his ...
The History of the United States (1789–1849), sometimes called the Antebellum period, is the history beginning with the Presidency of George Washington and ending just before the American Civil War. The first government, formed under the Articles of Confederation, had ended and a new government based on the United States Constitution began. [1] .
