BIGpedia - 1816 - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online

Years: 1813 1814 1815 - 1816 - 1817 1818 1819
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

Known as the "Year Without A Summer" or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.
March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
May 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain
July 17 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election
December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.

Tsultrim Gyatso becomes the 10th Dalai Lama.
The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
The Battle of Seven Oaks is fought in the Red River Colony of Canada.
In France, René Laennec (1781-1826) invents the stethoscope.
First known cultivation of the cranberry.
Francis Ellis first describes the Dravidian languages.
The Second Bank of the United States is founded.
E. Remington and Sons is founded.
Buffalo, New York is incorporated.
African Methodist Episcopal Church is founded in Philadelphia.
Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.
Large-scale slave insurrection in Barbados - one white and 176 slaves killed and 214 executed afterwards
Divorce annulled in France