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October 25 – November 6 – 1816 United States presidential election: James Monroe defeats Rufus King. November 10 – The British troop transport Harpooner, returning from Quebec to Britain, is wrecked at Cape Pine on Newfoundland (island) with the loss of 208 of the 385 people on board.
28 June – Luddites destroy the bobbinet lace machines in John Heathcoat 's Loughborough factory. 13 August – an earthquake in Aberdeen is the strongest ever in Scotland. [5] 27 August – Britain and the Netherlands bombard Algiers in an attempt to suppress slavery by the North African Barbary states.
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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 ).
Jun 6, 2014 · The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June and every month of the year had a hard frost. Temperatures dropped to as low as 40 degrees in July and August as far south as Connecticut. People also called it ‘Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death’ and the ‘Poverty Year.’.
Events. Known as the "Year Without A Summer" in the northern hemisphere because of global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that happened in 1815. February 12 – Fire almost destroyed the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. March 23 – Law frees serfs in Estonia.
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.
Aug 13, 2017 · The Bussa Rebellion was the largest slave revolt in the history of Barbados. The rebellion took its name from the African -born slave, Bussa, who led the uprising. The Bussa Rebellion was the first of the three major slave uprisings that took place in the British West Indies between the U.S. abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and general ...
