Timeline October 1818

Events in October 1818 2

• 1744 – 1818 Abigail Adams (1744-1818) Died 28 October 1818, aged 73 Abigail Adams was the wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams, serving as the second First Lady of the United States. Her extensive correspondence with her husband offers a detailed record of the American founding era and early advocacy for women's rights. She died at the family home in Quincy, Massachusetts.
• 1818 Anglo-American Convention of 1818 signed Treaty fixes the US-Canada border at the 49th parallel Britain and the United States signed a convention setting the boundary between the United States and British North America along the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. The treaty also established joint occupation of the Oregon Country for ten years. It settled fishing rights disputes left over from the War of 1812.