Skip to content
Elucidário Madeirense Home

Year1818

  1. 1818

    Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde built a small cemetery for the Santa Isabel hospital.

  2. 1818

    João VI decreed decimal uniformity of weights and measures.

  3. 1818

    The Prince of Joinville was born.

  4. 1818–1821

    Inácio Correia Drumond lived in Rio de Janeiro.

  5. 1818

    Observations by Leopold von Buch and companions were published in the narrative of the Tuckey expedition.

  6. 1818

    Parishioners of Folhadal petitioned to move the Porto da Cruz parish seat to the São João Nepomuceno chapel.

  7. 1818–1820

    The Teatro de Bom Gosto was probably built in Funchal.

  8. 1818

    Princess Adelaide married the future King William IV.

  9. 1818

    João Pedro de Freitas Pereira Drumond's Noticias Mineralogicas, mentioning the Arco de São Jorge landslide, was published.

  10. 3 January 1818

    Jacinto António de Sousa was born in Madeira.

  11. 21 January 1818

    The Campo da Barca was handed over to the Funchal council by order of the governor.

  12. 28 January 1818

    João Cirilo Moniz was born in Funchal.

  13. 7 April 1818

    João VI was acclaimed king in Funchal.

  14. 15 June 1818

    Sebastião Xavier Botelho was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.

  15. 17 August 1818

    Luiz da Costa Pereira was born in Funchal.

  16. 20 December 1818

    The church of Nossa Senhora do Monte was consecrated by Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde.

  17. c. 1818

    The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França became national property and was given to the bishop, its pilgrims' house becoming a bishops' summer residence.

Recently viewed

    Pages you read will appear here.