Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus ", in reference to the novel's themes of the over-reaching of modern man into dangerous areas of knowledge.

According to the first dictionary of modern Serbian language ( published by Vuk Stefanović-Karadžić in 1818 ) vukodlak / вукодлак ( werewolf ) and vampir / вампир ( vampire ) are synonyms, meaning a man who returns from his grave for purposes of fornicating with his widow.

The earliest inhabitants of Vilas County were members of the Chippewa band of Native Americans ; the first recorded white settler was a man named Ashman who established a trading post in Lac du Flambeau in 1818.

Payette, originally a fur trapper with the North West Company, was the first white man in the area in 1818.

He suicided, a defeated man a few days after his wife's death in 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 Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( 1812 – 1818 ), and was described by the historian and critic Lord Macaulay as " a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection ".

Francis Perceval Eliot ( September 1755 – 23 August 1818 ) was an English soldier, auditor and man of letters.

An anti-Obeah law passed in Barbados in 1818 specifically forbade the possession of " any poison, or any noxious or destructive substance ". A doctor who examined the medicine chest of an Obeah man arrested in Jamaica in 1866 identified white arsenic as one of the powders in it, but could not identify the others.

Asa Danforth ( July 6, 1746-September 2, 1818 ) was an early settler and leading citizen of Onondaga County, New York, where he was the second white man to settle upon his arrival in 1788.

After 1818, when his wife died, he had very slender means of his own, but he was popular with his friends and was well looked after by them ; Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, writing of him in 1829, remarks that " old Creevey is a living proof that a man may be perfectly happy and exceedingly poor.

The most popular story is that Captain Mifflin Kenedy ( 1818 – 1895 ), after visiting the Arctic Baffin Bay as a young man, gave the same name to the bay in Texas because of the remarkable contrast between the bays.

In 1818 as a young man of 20, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri to join his older brother Archibald Gamble, who had moved there earlier and was established as a clerk of the St. Louis Circuit Court.

Dalhousie University was first established as a non-sectarian college in 1818 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, whom the university was named after.

It is named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule ( 1818 – 1889 ).

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

It was named for James Gadsden of South Carolina, who served as Andrew Jackson's aide-de-camp in Florida in 1818.

Cahawba County was established on February 7, 1818, named for the Cahawba River, ( now more commonly " Cahaba River "), ultimately from the Choctaw for " water above.

Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818, and it was named for the Revolutionary War hero and the first Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby ( 1750 – 1826 ).

From 1818 on, the palace was named Georgenpalais and the gardens name changed into Georgengarten.

Along with Brown County, it is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time.

It was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston.

Nicholas County was created in 1818 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas.

It is named for Tennessee politician Edward S. Cheatham ( 1818 – 1878 ).

The county was created on March 1, 1818, and was named for General George Rogers Clark, a hero of the American Revolution.

The county was created by the 1873 territorial legislature and named for Charles Cavileer of Pembina ( 1818 – 1902 ), one of the earliest white settlers.

Cavalier County was created from the western part of Pembina County, North Dakota in 1873 and named by the Territorial Legislature for Charles Turner Cavileer ( 1818 – 1902 ), a well known fur trader, customs agent and postmaster.

It was named for Elisha Mitchell, professor of mathematics, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy at the University of North Carolina from 1818 until his death in 1857.

The county was officially organized on December 11, 1818, and is named after General " Mad " Anthony Wayne who served in the American Revolutionary War.

The county was organized December 4, 1818, and named for explorer Zebulon M. Pike.

The county was officially organized on December 14, 1818, and was named after President James Madison.

The county was founded December 14, 1818, and named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln of the American Revolutionary War.

The county was organized in 1818 and named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson.

The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

The county was organized December 17, 1818 and named for Sarshall Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Native Americans near Arrow Rock in 1814.

Some say it was named for William H. Crawford, who was U. S. Treasury Secretary in 1818.

During the recession which followed the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, Mackenzie's store in Dundee went bankrupt and he had to travel to seek work, first returning to Dundee ; then going to Wiltshire in 1818 to work for a canal company ; travelled briefly to France ; and then worked briefly for a newspaper in London.

After briefly serving during the War of 1812, Trimble served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1816 to 1817 and then in the Ohio State Senate from 1818 to 1826.

Baranov was briefly replaced as chief manager and governor in January, 1818, by Russian navy Capt.

In 1818, Joshua Woodard arrived in the area and began constructing buildings just north of the village forming the " Upper Village " that would come to be known briefly as Carthage.

The expedition was completed, but Linant decided not to return to France, and through a recommendation from the comte de Forbin, the expedition's director, briefly entered the service of the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, before setting out on a series of explorations that lasted from 1818 to 1830, which he described later in his Mémoires.