In history, year 1816 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1816.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 09 january | Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines. |
| 20 february | Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville was hissed by the audience during its debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. |
| 10 april | President James Madison signed the charter establishing the Second Bank of the United States as the nation's second national bank. |
| 22 may | A riot broke out in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day. |
| 19 june | Battle of Seven Oaks started between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company near Winnipeg, Canada. The main cause of dispute was Fur trade. It is also known as Pemmican War. |
| 19 june | The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
| 02 july | The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast oftoday's Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft,which was depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of theMedusa. |
| 14 august | The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunhaarchipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. |
| 19 november | The University of Warsaw, the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without auniversity. |
| 09 July | The South American country Argentina gained independence from Spain. |
| 11 December | Indiana became the 19th state of the United States. |
| 10 April | The federal government of the United States approved the establishment of a second bank there. |
| 09 January | Sir Humphrey Davy's Davy lamp was first tested underground at Hebburn colliery in north eastern England as a coal mining safety lamp. |
| 27 February | The Dutch withdrew Suriname from France after Napoleon's defeat. |
| 20 March | The US Supreme Court affirmed the authority to review the state's decision. |
| 10 April | The federal government of the United States approved the establishment of a second bank there. |
| 02 May | Sache-Cobourg (later King of the Belgian) Leopold married Charlotte Augusta, but she died the following year. |
| 19 June | In the Battle of Seven Oaks the Hudson Bay Company was defeated by the North West Company in Canada, near Winnipeg. |
| 09 July | The United Provinces of South America declared their independence from Spain. |
| 24 August | The Treaty of St. Louis signed in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 05 September | Louis XVIII tried to dissolve the Chamber ("the rarest Chamber"). |
| 21 October | Penang Island Free Penco established Penang Island in modern Malaysia) by Rev. Sparke Hutchings. |
| 19 November | The University of Warsaw was founded. |
| 12 December | The throne of Sicily and Naples merged into two Kingdom of Sicily under King Ferdinand I. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 January | Samuel C. Pomeroy / Politician / United States of America |
| 03 March | William James Blacklock / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 04 November | Stephen Johnson Field / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 05 April | Samuel Freeman Miller / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 12 April | Charles Gavan Duffy / Politician / Australia |
| 13 December | Werner von Siemens / Engineer / Germany |
| 14 July | Arthur de Gobineau / Author / France |
| 17 April | Thomas Hazlehurst / Architect / United Kingdom |
| 17 November | August Wilhelm Ambros / Composer / Austria |
| 19 June | William H. Webb / Philanthropist / United States of America |
| 20 April | Bogoslav Šulek / Historian / Croatia |
| 21 July | Paul Reuter / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 21 August | Charles Frédéric Gerhardt / Academic / France |
| 22 April | Charles-Denis Bourbaki / General / France |
| 24 May | Emanuel Leutze / Painter / United States of America |
| 25 February | Giovanni Morelli / Historian / Italy |
| 28 October | Malwida von Meysenbug / Writer / Germany |
| 29 December | Carl Ludwig / Physician / Germany |
| 29 November | Morrison Waite / Politician / United States of America |
| 31 July | George Henry Thomas / General / United States of America |