The [Common Era] Year of 1816, part of the [19th Century]

[1815] 1816 [1817]

Born in 1816:

April 21: [Charlotte Bronte|Charlotte Brontë] (pseud. [Currer Bell]), writer of [Jane Eyre], is born in [Thornton], [England]. (d. March 31, [1855], aged 38)
May 12: [Edmund Beckett Denison], 1st Baron Grimthorpe of Grimthorpe, designer of [London]'s [Big Ben], is born in [Nottinghamshire], [England]. (d. April 29 [1905], aged 88).
May 24: [Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze], American painter of historic events, is born in [Wurtemberg|Würtemberg], present-day [Germany]. (d. July 18 [1868], aged 52)
July 14: [Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau], diplomat, believer in the supremacy of the so-called [Aryan] race, and writer of [Les Pléiades], is born in [Versailles], [France]. (d. October 13 [1882], aged 66)
July 21: [Paul Julius Reuter|Baron Paul Julius von Reuter], founder of the British news agency [Reuters], is born in [Hesse], [Germany]. (d. February 25 [1899], aged 82)
July 23: [Charlotte Saunders Cushman], actress, is born in [Massachusetts], [U.S.] (d. February 18 [1876], aged 59)
July 31: [George Henry Thomas], Union general in the [American Civil War], nicknamed "the Rock of Chickamauga" for his bravery in the [Battle of Chickamauga], is born in [Virginia], [U.S.] (d. March 28 [1870], aged 53).
September 11: [Carl Zeiss], manufacturer in optics and founder of the [Zeiss] company, is born in [Weimar], present-day [Germany]. (d. December 3 [1888], aged 72)
December 13: [Werner Von Siemens], engineer, founder of the [Siemens] company, and the man after whom the [SI unit] for [conductance] is named, is born in [Prussia], present-day [Germany] (d. December 6 [1892], aged 75)

Passed away in 1816:

February 22: [Adam Ferguson], Professor of [Moral Philosophy] at [Edinburgh], [Scotland] and founder of the science now known as [sociology], dies in [Ulster], [Ireland]. (b. June 20 [1723], aged 93)
November 6: [Gouverneur Morris], American [federalist] leader, dies in [New York], [U.S.] (b. January 31 [1752], aged 64)

These (and other) things happened in 1816:

[Africa]:

[Shaka Zulu] begins to rule the [Zulu] nation.
Treaty of Peace and Amity is signed at [Algiers] on December 22 and 23 between the Dey of Algiers and the [United States of America].

[Asia]:

[Ranjit Singh], [Maharaja] of [Punjab] conquers [Kashmir] and [Naushera], thus extending his [secular] state's territory.
[Java] is restored to the [Netherlands] after having been held by the British since [1811].

[Europe]:

King [Louis XVIII] of [France] dissolves the chamber of deputies on September 5, after they challenge his authority.
[Poland]'s new [constitution] declares [Alexander I], [tsar] of [Russia], [King] of Poland. However, Poland is given complete control of its own [budget] and [army], and enjoys [freedom of the press] and religious tolerance.
An economic [crisis] in [England] causes large-scale [emigration] to North America.
In [Italy], [Gioacchino Rossini] composes his [opera] [The Barber of Seville]. The first production is set up in [Rome].
In [France], [Joseph N. Niepce] develops the first photographic [negative].
In present-day [Germany], [Johann Maelzel] patents the [metronome], as drawn up earlier by [Dutch] inventor [Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel].
[German] romantic artist [Caspar David Friedrich] paints View of a Harbor. It is purchased by [Friedrich Wilhelm III] of [Prussia] as a birthday present for the crown prince.
[French] physician [R.T. Laënnec] invents the [stethoscope], after being too embarrassed to perform immediate [auscultation] on a woman's chest.
In [England], [William Smith] publishes his pioneering work Strata Identified by Organized Fossils.
[English] novelist [Jane Austen] publishes [Emma], and completes her last novel, Persuasion, which will be published posthumously.

[North America]:

The [U.S.] [Supreme Court] affirms, in Martin vs. Hunter's lessee, its right to review state court decisions on March 20.
The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opens for business on December 2 as the first savings [bank] in the [United States].
[Secretary of War] [William H. Crawford] becomes [U.S. Secretary of the Treasury] under President [James Madison].
[James Monroe] of [Virginia] is elected the fifth President of the [United States] on December 4. He is [inaugurate]d the following year. Crawford continues to serve under the new President.
[Indiana] becomes the 19th state of the [United States of America] on December 11.
The [United States of America] begins to acquire the land between its original states and the [Mississippi River] by signing what will eventually amount to over forty treaties with [Native American] tribes including [Cherokee]s, [Chickasaw]s, [Choctaw]s, [Creek]s, and [Seminole]s, where the Native Americans cede their land to the United States.
The [U.S.] passes its first protective [tariff] for the benefit of its industries.
The [American Bible Society] is founded under its first president [Elias Boudinot]. In [1998] its library had 53,000 copies of [the Bible] in over 2,000 languages and dialects.
[Pittsburgh] (originally spelled without the h) is established on the site of [Fort Pitt].
[1815]'s [eruption] of the [volcano] Mt. [Tambora] produced giant clouds of ash, making this year the "year without a summer" with snow in June, as far south as [Massachusetts], and as deep as twenty inches in [Vermont] and other parts of northern [U.S.] Periods of [frost] in July result in [famine].
The [Washington American Colonization Society] is founded in [Washington, D.C.] to resettle freed [African-American]s.

[Oceania]:

In [Australia], [Sydney]'s Botanic Gardens are established.
[British] explorer and botanical collector [Allan Cunningham] begins his exploration of [Australia] and [New Zealand] that would continue until his death in 1839.

[South America]:

Thanks to [José de San Martin], [Argentina] declares its independence from [Spain] on July 9. King [Karl XIV Johan] of [Sweden] dispatches soldier Johan Adam Graaner on a reconnaissance mission to investigate Sweden's possibilities of conquest.
[Simon Bolivar] defeats the [Spanish] in [Venezuela] (their independence is confirmed in [1821]); the war of independence in Latin America rages on.

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