1816

Year 1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). This year was known as The Year Without a Summer because of globally low temperatures.

Events of 1816

The Chinese New Year of the 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 11 - In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other , the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
May 2 - Leopold of Sayxe-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 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

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.
and 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

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)

See also Category: 1816 births.

See also Category: 1816 deaths.