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

1816 in other 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) 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 of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1816th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 816th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1816, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• 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

• 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

• 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