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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 low global temperatures.

Events of 1816

January - June

The Chinese New Year of the Rat begins in January.
Known as the "Year Without A Summer" 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 - December

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.

Undated

Tsultrim Gyatso becomes the 10th Dalai Lama.

Banjul, capital of The Gambia]], is founded as a trading post, and named Bathurst.

René Laennec invents the stethoscope.

The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.

E. Remington and Sons is founded.

The Senate of Finland is established

Robert Stirling patents his engine

Births

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)

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 19 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1730)

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 5 - Dorothy Jordan, 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)

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