1816 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1816?
- January 9, 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- February 12, 1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
- March 10, 1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
- April 10, 1816 – The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
- April 14, 1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
- May 2, 1816 – Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
- May 6, 1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
- May 22, 1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
- June 16, 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
- June 19, 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- July 9, 1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
- August 14, 1816 – the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- August 24, 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- September 5, 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
- September 15, 1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
- October 21, 1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
- November 19, 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
- December 11, 1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
- December 30, 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
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