1816

Years: 1813 1814 1815 - 1816 - 1817 1818 1819

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1816 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1816 MDCCCXVI Ab urbe condita 2569 Armenian calendar 1265 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԵ Assyrian calendar 6566 Balinese saka calendar 1737–1738 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) 4513 or 4306     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4514 or 4307 Coptic calendar 1532–1533 Discordian calendar 2982 Ethiopian calendar 1808–1809 Hebrew calendar 5576–5577 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1872–1873  - Shaka Samvat 1737–1738  - Kali Yuga 4916–4917 Holocene calendar 11816 Igbo calendar 816–817 Iranian calendar 1194–1195 Islamic calendar 1231–1232 Japanese calendar Bunka 13 (文化１３年) Javanese calendar 1742–1744 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days Korean calendar 4149 Minguo calendar 96 before ROC 民前96年 Nanakshahi calendar 348 Thai solar calendar 2358–2359 Tibetan calendar 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1942 or 1561 or 789     — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1943 or 1562 or 790

1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

• 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.
• 20 February - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at 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 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
• 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.
• November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in 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 is fought in the Red River Colony of Canada.
• In France, 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

Births

• April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, British novelist (d. 1855)
• April 22 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
• 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, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1899)

Deaths

• 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)
• Francis Asbury, American Methodist bishop