1818

Events from the year **1818 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration)
* Governor of Delaware: John Clark (Federalist)
* Governor of Georgia: William Rabun (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Ninian Edwards (Democratic-Republican) (until October 6), Shadrach Bond (Independent) (starting December 3)
* Governor of Indiana: Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Gabriel Slaughter (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Jacques Villeré (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Charles Carnan Ridgely (Federalist)
* Governor of Massachusetts: John Brooks (Federalist)
* Governor of Mississippi: David Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: William Plumer (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Isaac Halstead Williamson (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of New York: DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of North Carolina: William Miller (Democratic-Republican) (until December 6), John Branch (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 6)
* Governor of Ohio: Thomas Worthington (Democratic-Republican) (until December 14), Ethan Allen Brown (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 14)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: William Findlay (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Nehemiah R. Knight (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: Andrew Pickens (Democratic-Republican) (until December 8), John Geddes (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8)
* Governor of Tennessee: Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Jonas Galusha (Democratic-Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: James Patton Preston (Democratic-Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Pierre Menard (Democratic-Republican) (starting October 6)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Christopher Harrison (Democratic-Republican) (until December 17), vacant (starting December 17)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Duncan Stewart (no political party)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tayler (Democratic-Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Edward Wilcox (political party unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John A. Cuthbert (Democratic-Republican) (until December 8), William Youngblood (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Paul Brigham (Democratic-Republican)

## Events

* January 18 – Prince White [Son of Welch King White] arrives in the United States to open first fast food restaurant
* March 15 – First Seminole War: Andrew Jackson leads an army into Spanish Florida.
* April 1 – First Seminole War: Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident – Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister are captured by Andrew Jackson's forces and later executed for aiding the Spanish and the Seminoles.
* 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.
* April 7 – Brooks Brothers, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, opens its first store on the northeast corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in New York City, where the South Street Seaport later stands.
* April 14 – United States Coast Survey operations suspended until August 9, 1832.
* May 23 – First Seminole War: Andrew Jackson's army enters Pensacola, Florida unopposed as the Spanish forces retreat to Fort Barrancas.
* May 28 – First Seminole War: Fort Barrancas surrenders to Andrew Jackson.
* July 11 – The Bank of the United States reverses its policy of expanding credit and sends notices to its borrowers nationwide demanding immediate repayment of balances due; the defaults during the next six months will trigger the Panic of 1819.
* July 15 – U.S. President James Monroe convenes a cabinet meeting to discuss whether General Andrew Jackson's unauthorized invasion and conquest of Spanish Florida should be disavowed by the White House. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams persuades the President that the action is justifiable as stopping terror caused by the Seminole tribes.
* July 16 – The Daniel Webster Debate Society of Phillips Exeter Academy is founded as The Golden Branch Literary Society, making it the oldest surviving secondary school literary society in the U.S.
* July 31 – The first newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio is issued by publisher Andrew Logan. Using the original name of the small settlement (population 172), Logan names the weekly paper *The Cleaveland Gazette & Commercial Register*.
* August 1 – The Topographical Bureau of the United States Department of War is founded.
* October 6 – Shadrach Bond is inaugurated as the first governor of Illinois.
* October 18 – Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby negotiate the Treaty of Tuscaloosa for the purchase of land in modern-day western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky from the Chickasaw Nation in what is later called the Jackson Purchase.
* October 20 – The Treaty of 1818 between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary of the U.S. as the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.
* December 3 – Illinois admitted becomes the 21st U.S. state.
* December 31 – The Osage Nation cedes traditional lands by treaty.

## Memoriam

* February 13
	+ George Rogers Clark, military leader (aged 65; Louisville, KY, USA)
	+ Absalom Jones, African-American abolitionist and clergyman (aged 71; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* May 10 – Paul Revere, American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution (aged 83; Boston, MA, USA)
* August 31 – Arthur St. Clair, major general in the Continental Army, President of the Continental Congress (aged 81; Greensburg, PA, USA)
* October 5 – Nancy Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (aged 34; Spencer County, IN, USA)
* October 28 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (aged 73; Quincy, MA, USA)
* November 6 – Caleb Gibbs, commander (aged 70; Charlestown, MA, USA)