1816 Calendar

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 16, 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

June 19, 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

July 9, 1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.

August 14, 1816 – the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

August 24, 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

September 5, 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).

October 21, 1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.

November 19, 1816 – Warsaw University is established.

December 11, 1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

March 29, 1816 – Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)

April 5, 1816 – Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)

April 17, 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)

May 24, 1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)

July 31, 1816 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)

August 21, 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)

September 25, 1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)

November 14, 1816 – John Curwen, British music educator (d. 1880)

November 29, 1816 – Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)

December 29, 1816 – Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)