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August 14 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean, ruling it from the Cape Colony. August 27 – Bombardment of Algiers: An anglo-Dutch fleet forces Omar Agha, Dey of Algiers to free Christian slaves.
The year 1816 AD is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [2] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern ...
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20 February – Preston becomes the first English town outside London with gas lighting publicly available, promoted by the Jesuit priest Joseph Dunn. 18 March – income tax abolished. 24 April – Lord Byron flees Britain to escape a growing scandal, his failed marriage and his growing debts.
August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. November – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election. November 7 – Jonathan Jennings is sworn in as the first governor of Indiana. December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state ( see History of Indiana ).
January – The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature launched in Baltimore with poetry, literary criticism and essays by John Neal and others. [1] April – Lord Byron leaves England for good to tour continental Europe. April 14 – Lord Byron 's poems "A Sketch from Private Life" and "Fare Thee Well", about his separation from his ...
Quick Facts. Close. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1816. June 19: Battle of Seven Oaks. This year was known as the Year Without a Summer, because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations.
