1816

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1816 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1816 MDCCCXVI
Ab urbe condita	2569
Armenian calendar	1265 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6566
Bengali calendar	1223
Berber calendar	2766
British Regnal year	56 Geo. 3 – 57 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2360
Burmese calendar	1178
Byzantine calendar	7324–7325
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4512 or 4452 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4513 or 4453
Coptic calendar	1532–1533
Discordian calendar	2982
Ethiopian calendar	1808–1809
Hebrew calendar	5576–5577
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1872–1873
- Shaka Samvat	1738–1739
- Kali Yuga	4917–4918
Holocene calendar	11816
Igbo calendar	816–817
Iranian calendar	1194–1195
Islamic calendar	1231–1232
Japanese calendar	Bunka 13 (文化１３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4149
Minguo calendar	96 before ROC 民前96年
Thai solar calendar	2358–2359

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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

January 6 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order for the expulsion of the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow.^[1]
January 7 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
February 8 – The Governorate of Estonia of the Russian Empire emancipates its peasants from serfdom.
February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg.
February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville premières at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

April 10 – The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.
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, 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 declares 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 14 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean, ruling it from the Cape Colony.
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 is founded by Rev. Sparke Hutchings on the island of Penang (in modern-day Malaysia).
November 6 – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the United States presidential election.
November 19 – University of Warsaw established.
December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
December 12 – Merger of the thrones of Sicily and Naples into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under King Ferdinand I.
December 21 – American Colonization Society established to support the emigration of free African Americans to Africa.

Shaka starts to rule the Zulu Kingdom at about this date.
Banjul, capital of the Gambia, is founded as a trading post, and named Bathurst.
René Laennec invents the stethoscope.
E. Remington and Sons (the famous firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded.
Robert Stirling patents his Stirling engine, then known as Stirling's air engine.
A rail capable of supporting a heavy locomotive is developed.

January 3 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, American politician and railroad executive (d. 1891)
January 30 – Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician and general (d. 1894)
March 14 – William Marsh Rice, American university founder (d. 1900)
March 29 – Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
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)

Date unknown
- Bénédict Chastanier, French surgeon (b. 1739) (approximate date)