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List of 1816 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1816

What happened in the year 1816?

Date Event
January 9, 1816 Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
February 20, 1816 Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
April 10, 1816 The Federal government of the United States 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, for which he is remembered as the country's first national hero.
May 22, 1816 A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
June 19, 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
July 2, 1816 The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
July 9, 1816 Argentina declares independence from Spain.
July 27, 1816 Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
August 5, 1816 The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
August 14, 1816 The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
August 24, 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
September 5, 1816 Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
September 15, 1816 HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
November 19, 1816 Warsaw University is established.
December 11, 1816 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
December 30, 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.