Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1816. This year saw 33 significant events. 1 notable figure passed away.
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa (comic opera) in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini.
Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
Leading Romantic poet Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving his marriage with Lady Byron at her request after 1 year of marriage
Léopold (Léopold I)of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the Netherlands marries British Princess Charlotte Augusta
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
France decrees the Bonaparte family is excluded from the country forever
-14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
Jews are expelled from the Free Imperial City of Lübeck
US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, colloquially known as Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 1817.
American Bible Society organized in New York
British steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor
American Bible Society is a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Baltimore, also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S.
The Battle of Seven Oaks—also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre and the Seven Oaks Incident—was a violent confrontation of the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West...
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 and in raids in the...
Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts during "year without a summer"
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 and in raids in the...
US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
Bavaria joins the Holy Alliance
Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Java returns to Dutch rule after being controlled by the British for five years
The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the USA and the united tribes of Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi in St. Louis, Missouri
Lord Exmouth bombards Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
Oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia, Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by English clergyman Rev. Hutchings
The University of Warsaw (Polish: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Latin: Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland.
The first savings bank in the US, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opens
The French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies of the Dutch East Indies took place between 1806 and 1816.
Citizens of Geneva thwart Savoyard invaders
Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and...
The Treaty of St. Louis of 1816 was treaty signed by Ninian Edwards, William Clark, and Auguste Chouteau for the United States and representatives of the Council of Three Fires (united tribes of...
Samuel Hood royal navy officer and politician, known for royal navy officer and politician, died on 1816-01-27.
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa (comic opera) in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini.
Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
Leading Romantic poet Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving his marriage with Lady Byron at her request after 1 year of marriage
Léopold (Léopold I)of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the Netherlands marries British Princess Charlotte Augusta
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
France decrees the Bonaparte family is excluded from the country forever
-14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
Jews are expelled from the Free Imperial City of Lübeck
US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, colloquially known as Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 1817.
American Bible Society organized in New York
British steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor
American Bible Society is a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Baltimore, also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S.
The Battle of Seven Oaks—also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre and the Seven Oaks Incident—was a violent confrontation of the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West...
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 and in raids in the...
Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts during "year without a summer"
Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 and in raids in the...
US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
Bavaria joins the Holy Alliance
Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Java returns to Dutch rule after being controlled by the British for five years
The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the USA and the united tribes of Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi in St. Louis, Missouri
Lord Exmouth bombards Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
Oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia, Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by English clergyman Rev. Hutchings
The University of Warsaw (Polish: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Latin: Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland.
The first savings bank in the US, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opens
The French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies of the Dutch East Indies took place between 1806 and 1816.
Citizens of Geneva thwart Savoyard invaders
Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and...
The Treaty of St. Louis of 1816 was treaty signed by Ninian Edwards, William Clark, and Auguste Chouteau for the United States and representatives of the Council of Three Fires (united tribes of...