Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1816
Birthdays
- January 15 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
- January 30 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
- February 17 - Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
- March 2 - Alexander H. Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
- April 5 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
- April 17 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
- April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
- April 22 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
- May 24 - Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
- June 19 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
- July 4 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
- July 14 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
- July 21 - Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist and media owner (Reuters) (d. 1899)
- July 31 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
- August 21 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
- September 11 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
- November 3 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
- November 3 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
- November 4 - Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
- November 17 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
- November 29 - Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
- December 8 - August Belmont, Sr.
- December 13 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer
- December 29 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
Deaths
- January 27 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
- February 6 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
- February 22 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
- March 19 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
- April 28 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
- May 28 - Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
- June 5 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
- June 12 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
- July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
- July 20 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- August 9 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
- October 30 - Frederick I of Württemberg, (b. 1754)
- November 6 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
Events
- January 9 - Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- February 12 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
- February 20 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
- April 10 - The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
- May 2 - Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
- May 6 - The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
- June 19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- July 9 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.
- August 24 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- September 5 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
- October 21 - 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 - Warsaw University is established.
- December 11 - Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
- December 30 - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
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