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1816
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1816 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1816
MDCCCXVI |
| Ab urbe condita |
2569 |
| Armenian calendar |
1265
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԵ |
| Chinese calendar |
4512 – 4513
乙亥 – 丙子 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1808 – 1809 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5576 – 5577 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1871 – 1872 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1738 – 1739 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4917 – 4918 |
| Iranian calendar |
1194 – 1195 |
| Islamic calendar |
1231 – 1232 |
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 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
November
- November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.
December
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.
- The Battle of Seven Oaks is fought in the Red River Colony of Canada.
- 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 8 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (d. 1890)
- 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 François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione, French marshal (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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