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1816 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1816
– Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
February 12, 1816
– The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
March 10, 1816
– Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
April 10, 1816
– The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
April 14, 1816
– Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
May 2, 1816
– Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
May 6, 1816
– The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
May 22, 1816
– A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
June 19, 1816
– Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
August 14, 1816
– the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
Who Were Born On 1816?
January 15, 1816
– Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
January 30, 1816
– Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician, 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
June 19, 1816
– William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
July 4, 1816
– Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
August 21, 1816
– Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
September 25, 1816
– Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)
November 3, 1816
– Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
November 4, 1816
– Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
December 13, 1816
– Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
December 29, 1816
– Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)