Information about 1816
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s |
| Years: | 1813 1814 1815 - 1816 - 1817 1818 1819 |
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Events of 1816
January - March
- The 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 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 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 - June
- 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 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
- June 19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Hudson Bay and Northwest fur-trading companies, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
July - September
- 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 24 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- August 27 - Bombardment of Algiers
October - December
- November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.
- December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
Undated
- 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.
- Alexander D. Campbell and Francis W. Ellis first describe 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
| Gregorian calendar | 1816 MDCCCXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2569 |
| Armenian calendar | 1265 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -28 – -27 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2360 |
| Chinese calendar | 4452/4512-8-1 (乙亥年八月初一日) — to — 4453/4513-intercalary 6-9(丙子年閏六月初九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1532 – 1533 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1808 – 1809 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5576 – 5577 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1871 – 1872 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1738 – 1739 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4917 – 4918 |
| Holocene calendar | 11816 |
| Iranian calendar | 1194 – 1195 |
| Islamic calendar | 1231 – 1232 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunka 0 (文化0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2476 (皇紀2476年) |
| Julian calendar | 1861 |
| Korean calendar | 4149 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2359 |
January - June
- March 14 - William Marsh Rice, American university founder (d. 1900)
- 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 - December
- 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)
- August 16 - Charles John Vaughan, English scholar (d. 1897)
- November 17 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
- December 13 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1892)
- date unknown - Francis Dutton, Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)
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Deaths
January - June
- 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 - December
- 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)
- September 27 - Edward Charles Howard, British chemist and chemical engineer (b. 1774)
- November 8 - Gouverneur Morris, American statesman (b. 1752)
- December 15 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English statesman and scientist (b. 1753)
- December 30 - Louis Henri Loison, French general (b. 1771)
- December 5 - sinterklaas, saint (b. 0)
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- Richard Trevithick moves to Peru with the intention of designing and building steam locomotives for mining operations there.
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See also: 1815 in Australia, other events of 1816, 1817 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
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Governors of the Australian colonies:- Governor of New South Wales- Lachlan Macquarie
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See also: 1815 in Canada, other events of 1816, 1817 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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- January 5 - Sir George Prevost dies before consideration of Commodore Yeo's charges; but the Duke of Wellington says: "He must have returned, after the
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- 24 April - James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (b.1770).
- 7 July - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (b.1751).
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