1816

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years:	1813 1814 1815 – 1816 – 1817 1818 1819

1816 in topic:
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Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music
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Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK
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Births – Deaths
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Establishments – Disestablishments
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Year 1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and 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 temperatures in the northern hemisphere, the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815.

Events

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 Saxe-Coburg (later King of the Belgians) marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
June 19 – Battle of Seven Oaks: The Hudson's Bay Company is defeated by the North West Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

July – Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori, gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland, tell each other tales. This gives rise to two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre.
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: Various European Allies ships force the Dey of Algiers to free Christian slaves.

October 21 – Penang Free School was founded by Rev. Sparke Hutchings on the island of Penang, Malaysia.
November 6 – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.
December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.

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 (the famous firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded.
The Senate of Finland is established.
Robert Stirling patents his Stirling engine, then known as Stirling's air engine.
A rail capable of supporting a heavy locomotive is developed.
The Ottomans grant Serbia local autonomy.
Rammohun Roy founds Hindu College in Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects.

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)