1816

Template:Yearbox Template:C19YearInTopic Template:Year in other calendars 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

January

• The feared Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins in January.
• Known as the "Year Without A Summer" or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.
• January 9 - Sir Humphry Davy tested the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.

February

• February 12 - Fire nearly destroyed the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
• February 20 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.

March

• March 22 - A post office is established near the falls of the Tar River in eastern Nash County, North Carolina and named Rocky Mount for a rocky mound at the base of the falls. The area grows slowly and is not incorporated until 1867.
• March 23 - Emancipation from serfdom in Estonia
• March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

April

• April 11 - In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.

May

• May 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.

June

• June 19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Hudson Bay and Northwest fur-trading companies, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

July

• July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain
• July 17 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.

August

• August 24 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
• August 27 - Bombardment of Algiers

November

• November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.

December

• December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.

Unknown dates

• Tsultrim Gyatso becomes the 10th Dalai Lama.
• The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
• A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
• In France, René Laennec (1781-1826) invents the stethoscope.
• First known cultivation of the cranberry.
• Francis Ellis first describes the Dravidian languages.
• The Second Bank of the United States is founded.
• E. Remington and Sons is founded.
• Buffalo, New York is incorporated.
• Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.
• Large-scale slave insurrection in Barbados - one white and 176 slaves killed and 214 executed afterwards
• Divorce annulled in France
• The Senate of Finland is established
• Aleksandrów Łódzki founded by Rafał Bratoszewski

Births

• April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, British novelist (d. 1855)
• April 22 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
• April 25 - Eliza Daniel Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. ?)
• May 24 - Emanuel Leutze, American painter (d. 1868)
• June 19 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1899)
• June 30 - Richard Lindon, Inventor of the Rugby Ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder, the Brass Hand Pump for the same (d. 1887)
• July 4 - Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat and author (d. 1882)
• July 23 - Charlotte Cushman, American stage actress (d. 1876)
• July 31 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
• August 4 - William Julian Albert, U.S. Congressman (d. 1879)
• November 17 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
• December 13 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1892)
• William Marsh Rice, American university founder (d. 1900)
• Charles John Vaughan, English scholar (d. 1897)
• Francis Dutton, Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)

Deaths

• January 27 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
• February 6 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
• February 22 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
• March 20 - Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1734)
• June 5 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1751)
• June 12 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
• July 5 - Dorothy Jordan, Irish actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761)
• July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (b. 1751)
• November 8 - Gouverneur Morris, American statesman (b. 1752)
• December 15 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English statesman and scientist (b. 1753)

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