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 |
| 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) 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 | 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 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.
Events
[change | change source]- Known as the "Year Without A Summer" in the northern hemisphere because of global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that happened in 1815.
- February 12 – Fire almost destroyed the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
- March 23 – Law frees serfs in Estonia
- March 25 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies
- May 2 – Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (later known as 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 9 – Argentina becomes free from Spain
- July 17 – The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost.
- August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
Births
[change | change source]- March 14 – William Marsh Rice, American university founder
- April 21 – Charlotte Brontë, British novelist
- April 22 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
- April 25 – Eliza Daniel Stewart, American temperance movement leader
- May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, American painter
- June 19 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist
- July 4 – Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat and writer
- July 23 – Charlotte Cushman, American stage actress
- July 31 – George Henry Thomas, American general
- August 4 – William Julian Albert, U.S. Congressman
- August 16 – Charles John Vaughan, English scholar
- November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer
- December 13 – Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist
Deaths
[change | change source]- January 27 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral
- February 6 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka
- February 22 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian
- March 20 – Queen Maria I of Portugal
- June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer
- June 12 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione
- July 5 – Dorothy Jordan, Irish actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom
- July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright
- November 8 – Gouverneur Morris, American statesman
- December 15 – Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English statesman and scientist