1816 in History – What happened in year 1816

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.

Top Historical Events of the Year 1816:

Date/Month	Event / Incidence / Incident
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.

Famous birthdays in the year 1816:

Date/Month	Name / Profession / Country
03 November	Jubal Early / Lawyer / United States of America
04 November	Stephen Johnson Field / Lawyer / United States of America
05 October	Ursula Frayne / Missionary / Ireland
13 December	Werner von Siemens / Engineer / Germany
14 November	John Curwen / Educator / United Kingdom
14 July	Arthur de Gobineau / Author / France
14 December	Abraham Hochmuth / Educator / Hungary
17 April	Thomas Hazlehurst / Architect / United Kingdom
19 March	Johannes Verhulst / Composer / Netherlands
20 April	Bogoslav Šulek / Historian / Croatia
21 April	Charlotte Brontë / Poet / United Kingdom
22 April	Charles-Denis Bourbaki / General / France
24 May	Emanuel Leutze / Painter / United States of America
25 February	Giovanni Morelli / Historian / Italy
25 September	Georg August Rudolph / Politician / Germany
28 October	Malwida von Meysenbug / Writer / Germany
29 December	Carl Ludwig / Physician / Germany
29 September	Paul Féval / Author / France
30 January	Nathaniel P. Banks / Politician / United States of America
31 July	George Henry Thomas / General / United States of America