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•  January 9, 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
•  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.
•  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.
•  November 19, 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
•  December 30, 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.

•  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)
•  February 17, 1816 – Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
•  March 29, 1816 – Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
•  April 20, 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer (d. 1895)
•  November 3, 1816 – Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
•  November 29, 1816 – Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
•  December 8, 1816 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
•  December 13, 1816 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)