1816

Events of 1816

The Chinese New Year of the 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 1 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia signed an order for expulsion of the Jesuit Monastic Order from the Russian Empire
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 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 African-American Methodists, 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
November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.
December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.

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. 1908)
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 (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)
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)