One of the first writers of science fiction was Mary Shelley, whose novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) dealt with the asexual creation of new life, a re-telling of the Adam and Eve story.

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

* Adam Sedgwick, 1818

Henslow was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge where he graduated as 16th wrangler in 1818, the year in which Adam Sedgwick became Woodwardian Professor of Geology.

Adam is a clear reference to Frankenstein's monster, who in the novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) tells his creator that he is the " Adam of your labours ".

His mother was Marie Louise Oehlenschläger ( 1818 – 1910 ), daughter of Adam Oehlenschläger.

In 1818 he wrote a reply to Adam Clarke's doctrine of the eternal Sonship of Christ ; Watson believed that Clarke's views were unorthodox and, therefore, not faithfully Wesleyan.

In 1818, Scott and a small team of military men unearthed the honours from the depths of Edinburgh Castle.

In 1818, Sir Walter Scott was given permission to search the castle for the Crown of Scotland, which had been stored away since the union of Scotland and England in 1707.

Jackson gathered his forces at Fort Scott in March 1818, including 800 U. S. Army regulars, 1, 000 Tennessee volunteers, 1, 000 Georgia militia, and about 1, 400 friendly Lower Creek warriors.

Counties later formed all or in part from Clark County were: Crawford ( 1818 ), Decatur ( 1822 ), Fayette ( 1819 ), Floyd ( 1819 ), Franklin ( 1811 ), Harrison ( 1808 ), Jackson ( 1816 ), Jefferson ( 1811 ), Jennings ( 1817 ), Randolph ( 1818 ), Ripley ( 1816 ), Rush ( 1822 ), Scott ( 1820 ), Switzerland ( 1814 ), Union ( 1821 ), Washington ( 1814 ), and Wayne ( 1811 ).

Scott established the genre of the historical novel with his series of Waverley Novels, including Waverley ( 1814 ), The Antiquary ( 1816 ), and The Heart of Midlothian ( 1818 ).

In 1818 the young man attracted the notice of Sir Walter Scott, and he married Scott's eldest daughter Sophia in April 1820.

The Sir Walter Scott and his Family, a cabinet-sized picture with small full-length figures in the dress of Scottish peasants, was the result of a visit to Abbotsford in 1818.

There they remained, almost forgotten, until the fourth of February 1818 when a group, including Sir Walter Scott, set out to recover the Honours.

The events surrounding the Porteous Riots form part of the early chapters of the novel The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott ( 1818 ), where they are recorded in graphic detail.

* Scott, Sir Walter. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, ( 1818 )

The events surrounding the Porteous Riots form part of the early chapters of the novel The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott ( 1818 ), where they are recorded in graphic detail.

* Scott, Sir Walter. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, ( 1818 )

* The Heart of Midlothian, an 1818 novel by Sir Walter Scott

Other well-known people who visited included Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond on September 6, 1807 ( there is still a plaque commemorating his visit, which is still there to this day ), Sir Joseph Paxton ( 1856 ) ( designer of The Crystal Palace ), Bishop Samuel Wilberforce ( 1858 ), Lord Byron ( 1913 ) and Sir Walter Scott ( 1818 ).

His A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice came out in five volumes between 1799 and 1818, and included contributions from Burns, Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell.

On December 17, 1818, Sharp married Eliza T. Scott ; the union produced three children.

* Philip Barton Key ( 1818 – 1859 ), son of Francis Scott Key, Shot and killed by Daniel E. Sickles, his lover's husband, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D. C., 27 February 1859

He was associated with Henry Weber and Scott in Illustrations of Northern Antiquities ( 1814 ), and edited Burt's Letters from Scotland with Scott in 1818.

The Regalia, by his Majesty's special command, have been brought forth from their place of concealment in 1818, and exposed to the view of the people, by whom they must be looked upon with deep associations ; and, in this very winter of 1828 – 9, Mons Meg has been restored to the country, where that, which in every other place or situation was a mere mass of rusty iron, becomes once more a curious monument of antiquity " Notes to Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott.

Francis Scott Key was one of this group which, in 1818, formed " An Education Society " and five years later opened the " School of Prophets ," to become the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.

There they remained all but forgotten in a chest until 1818, when a group of people including Sir Walter Scott set out to find them.

* 1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

In 1818, the French-Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846 Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee.

* Richard Ellis, born and raised in Lunenburg County, settled in Alabama where he was a member of Alabama ’ s Constitutional Convention in 1818 and an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ( 1819 – 1826 ).

After the Lewis and Clark Expedition of the early 19th century, white settlers came to the area, many from Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas ; the earliest pioneers appeared to have settled as early as 1818, and the town of Waynesville was designated the county seat by the Missouri Legislature in 1833.

Southern Railroad Depot, Madison, AlabamaMadison's first resident was John Cartwright, who settled in the area in 1818.

Uniontown was first settled in 1818 by the Wood family and was originally known as Woodville.

The area was settled by David Boyd and Thomas Martin in the year 1818.

Settlers such as the Wiley brothers settled near East Fork Cadron around 1818, which is about eight miles east of Greenbrier today.

Though Claremont ( the town ) was founded in 1853, people first settled in Claremont Township in 1818, The year Illinois was admitted to the union.

Noble Township was settled first by the Evans family who came in 1818.

The city is named for Peter Hammond ( 1797 – 1870 )— possibly anglicized from Peter av Hammerdal ( Peter of Hammerdal )— a Swedish immigrant who first settled the area around 1818.

The area was in the domain of the Seneca tribe and was first settled by outsiders around 1818.

In 1818, James Johnson, who settled at today's Johnson Corners, built a hotel.

Wellington was settled in 1818 by Ephraim Wilcox, Charles Sweet, William T. Welling, John Clifford, and Joseph Wilson from the states of Massachusetts and New York.

Situated beside the Susquehanna River, the borough was first settled in 1769, founded in 1786, and incorporated in 1818.

Blairsville was settled in 1818 and incorporated in 1825.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

He returned in 1817, and settled in the Pleasant Valley area in 1818.

After years of wandering he settled in India, where he established a periodical, the Calcutta Journal, in 1818.

In 1818 Dugald Campbell, of North Knapdale, Scotland emigrated to Canada and settled in Aldborough, Elgin County, Ontario.

They then settled in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England in 1818 where Murchison made the acquaintance of Sir Humphry Davy.

** With the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, the United States and the United Kingdom settled the border dispute between the Territory of Missouri and Rupert's Land.