Today in History for Year 1816

Months in Year 1816: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 12th - France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
Jan 22nd - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"
Feb 13th - -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
Feb 20th - Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
Feb 27th - Dutch regain Suriname
Mar 6th - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
Mar 20th - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
Apr 9th - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
Apr 10th - 2nd Bank of US chartered
May 5th - American Bible Society organized (NY)
May 10th - English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor
May 11th - American Bible Society forms (NY)
Jun 6th - 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Mount Tambora)
Jun 11th - Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
Jun 19th - Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Jul 1st - Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
Jul 3rd - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
Jul 8th - Frost in Waltham, MA
Jul 9th - Argentina declares independence from Spain
Jul 19th - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
Jul 27th - US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
Aug 8th - Bavarian joins Saint Alliance
Aug 14th - Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
Aug 19th - Java again in Dutch hands
Aug 24th - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
Aug 27th - Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
Sep 5th - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
Oct 7th - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
Oct 21st - 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.
Nov 19th - Warsaw University is established.
Dec 2nd - 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
Dec 4th - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
Dec 10th - Dutch regain Sumatra
Dec 11th - Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
Dec 11th - Indiana becomes 19th state
Dec 13th - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
Dec 28th - American Colonization Society organizes
Dec 30th - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 79 of 79

Jan 7th - Stephen Miller, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
Jan 9th - John Palmer Usher, Secy Int (Union) died in 1889
Jan 11th - Fitz-Henry Warren, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Jan 15th - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
Jan 19th - Henry Gray, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Jan 23rd - Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
Jan 26th - Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Jan 30th - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Feb 17th - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer
Feb 17th - Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
Feb 20th - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer
Mar 2nd - Alexander H. Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
Mar 12th - David Stuart, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Mar 14th - Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Mar 19th - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer
Mar 27th - George Elvey, composer
Mar 29th - James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Apr 5th - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
Apr 8th - Frederick William Burton, painter
Apr 13th - William Sterndale Bennett, composer
Apr 16th - Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army)
Apr 17th - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
Apr 21st - Charlotte Bronte, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
Apr 21st - Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874
Apr 22nd - Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus)
Apr 22nd - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
May 3rd - Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
May 14th - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
May 16th - Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
May 24th - Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
May 24th - Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894)
Jun 4th - Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union)
Jun 11th - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Jun 19th - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
Jun 28th - Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
Jul 4th - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
Jul 7th - Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Jul 11th - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect
Jul 13th - Gustav Freytag, writer
Jul 14th - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
Jul 20th - William Bowman, English anatomist
Jul 21st - Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
Jul 23rd - Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
Jul 25th - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
Jul 31st - George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
Aug 3rd - John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
Aug 4th - Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Aug 16th - Joseph Robinson, composer
Aug 19th - Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
Aug 21st - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
Aug 24th - Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
Sep 1st - Gustav Schmidt, composer
Sep 4th - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer
Sep 6th - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Sep 11th - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
Sep 15th - Edward Wolff, composer
Sep 23rd - Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC (Union), died in 1887
Sep 23rd - Julius White, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Oct 4th - Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Oct 6th - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
Oct 15th - Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Oct 16th - William Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
Oct 29th - Ferdinand II AFA, king of Portugal
Nov 3rd - Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
Nov 4th - William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Nov 4th - Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
Nov 14th - John Curwen, composer
Nov 15th - Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Nov 17th - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist (History of Music)
Nov 26th - William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
Nov 29th - Carl Binder, composer
Nov 29th - Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
Dec 6th - Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Dec 8th - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
Dec 13th - Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
Dec 13th - E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
Dec 18th - Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
Dec 27th - Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Dec 29th - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Feb 29th - Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
May 2nd - Léopold (Léopold I)of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the Netherlands marries British Princess Charlotte Augusta
Dec 30th - English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft.

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Apr 16th - Leading Romantic Age poet Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving his marriage with Lady Byron at her request after 1 year of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 1st - Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60
Jan 15th - Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
Jan 27th - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood/admiral, dies at 92
Jan 30th - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
Feb 4th - Meingosus Gaelle, composer, dies at 63
Feb 6th - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
Feb 10th - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74
Feb 22nd - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
Mar 18th - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
Mar 19th - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
Mar 23rd - Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer, dies at 95
Apr 28th - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
May 28th - Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
May 29th - Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
Jun 5th - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
Jun 6th - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
Jun 12th - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
Jul 3rd - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
Jul 6th - Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
British Admiral Samuel Hood (Jan 27th) Jul 7th - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
Jul 14th - Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
Jul 20th - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
Jul 23rd - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
Aug 6th - Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
Aug 7th - Dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77
Aug 8th - Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65
Aug 9th - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
Oct 30th - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
Nov 6th - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
Dec 15th - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44
Dec 16th - Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73