small settlement (population 172), Logan names the weekly paper The Cleaveland Gazette & Commercial Register. August 1 – A separate Topographical Bureau of the United States Department of War is established. August 4 – 1818 United Kingdom general election for the House of Commons. The Tory Party, led by Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, retains its control of the government but loses some seats. September – Sir Stamford Raffles sets out to visit Lord Hastings, Governor-General of India, to gain his approval to establish a trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore). September 7 – Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim. September 23 – Border markers are formally installed for the European territory of Moresnet. October–December October 5 – Claudine Thévenet (known as Mary of St. Ignatius) founds the Roman Catholic order Religieuses de Jésus-Marie ("Religious of Jesus And Mary") in Lyon, France. October 20 – A treaty between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the boundary between the U.S. and British North America as the 49th parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle. November 11 – Anglo-Chinese College is founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca (later renamed Ying Wa College). November 16 – The Saint Louis Academy, which later becomes Saint Louis University, is founded by Reverend Louis William Valentine Dubourg in the United States. December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state. December 13 – Cyril VI of Constantinople quits his place as an Ecumenical Patriarch. December 24 – The Christmas carol "Silent Night" (Stille Nacht), with words by the priest Josef Mohr, set to music by organist Franz Xaver Gruber, is first performed at St. Nikolaus Parish Church, in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. Date unknown Catholic–Orthodox clash in Aleppo. The first edition of the Farmers' Almanac is published in the United States. The first Serbian dictionary is published by Vuk Karadžić. Besses o' th' Barn Brass Band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester in the north of England, by this date. The Barakzai brothers expel Mahmud Shah and the Sadozais out of Afghanistan, dividing the provinces up amongst themselves. Births January–June January 1 – J. P. C. Emmons, American attorney and politician (d. 1877) January 30 – Artúr Görgey, Hungarian military general, politician (d. 1916) February 4 – Emperor Norton, San Francisco eccentric and visionary