1818
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"Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793-1881) followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name and title of nobility, as it happened with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon. In 1818, his best known work, Dictionnaire Infernal, was published. In 1863, sixty-nine illustrations by Louis Le Breton were added that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons."--Sholem Stein |
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1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was the the 818th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1810s decade.
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Events
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Art and culture
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Literature
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Fiction
- January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias is published pseudonymously in London.
- March 11 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published anonymously in London.
- July 3 – Lord Byron begins work on his epic poem, Don Juan. He dies in 1824 before he can finish the poem, after finishing 16 cantos and working on the 17th.
- The second enlarged edition of the The Family Shakespeare is published, an edited version of Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
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Non-fiction
- Considerations on the principal events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël
- Dictionnaire Infernal by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy
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Visual art
- Severed Heads by Théodore Géricault
- Study of Truncated Limbs by Théodore Géricault
- Elijah in the Desert by Washington Allston
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
- Public and Private Buildings Executed by Sir John Soane by Joseph Gandy
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- February 14 – Frederick Douglass (his day of birth was never established; he adopted this date), American abolitionist author, statesman (d. 1895)
- May 5 – Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
- June 17 - Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
- July 30 - Emily Brontë, British novelist (d. 1848)
- November 9 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- April 10 – Auguste Ambroise Tardieu, French physician (d. 1879)
- May 25 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (d. 1897)
- Giovanni Strazza, Italian sculptor (d. 1875)
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Deaths
- Abbé de Coulmier, Catholic priest and abbot, and the director of the Charenton insane asylum (b. 1741)
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