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'''1816''' was a
leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
*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 volcano 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 and Labrador St. John's,
Newfoundland.
*
20 February -
Gioachino Rossini's ''
The Barber of Seville'' debuts at
Largo di Torre Argentina Teatro Argentina, with a ''fiasco''.
*
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.
*
May 2 -
Léopold I of Belgium Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries
Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
*
June 19 -
Battle of Seven Oaks (1816) 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
France French passenger ship ''
The Raft of the Medusa 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 with the Ottawa, etc. is signed in
St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis,
Missouri.
*
November -
James Monroe defeats
Rufus King in
U.S. presidential election, 1816 U.S. presidential election
*
December 11 -
Indiana is admitted as the 19th
U.S. state.
*
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 (1816) Battle of Seven Oaks is fought in the
Red River Colony of
Canada.
*In
France,
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec 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.
*
African Methodist Episcopal Church is founded in
Philadelphia.
*
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
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)
*
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)
*
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)
*
William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (d.
1899)
*
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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