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The eruption of Mount Tambora was the largest cause of this climate anomaly. [21] While there were other eruptions in 1815, Tambora is classified as a VEI-7 eruption with a column 45 km (148,000 ft) tall, eclipsing all others by at least one order of magnitude.
Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE (6 August 1816 – 19 April 1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway.. He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many engineering interests including the electric telegraph and the Channel Tunnel for which he designed a boring machine.
Augustus Leopold Egg RA (2 May 1816 – 26 March 1863) [1] was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.
Charles Roberts (c. 1772 – 4 May 1816) was a captain in the British Army during the War of 1812.He is best known for his field command of the mixed British-Canadian-First Nations column that captured a United States strongpoint, Fort Mackinac, on 17 July 1812 in one of the opening movements of the war.
District Incumbent This race Representative Party First elected Results Candidates [a]; Delaware at-large 2 seats on a general ticket: Thomas Clayton: Federalist 1814
Kazimierz Stanisław Michał Wodzicki (26 September 1816 – 20 October 1889) was a Polish nobleman from Galicia who served as a member of the Imperial Council from 1861 to 1863. He was also an ornithologist and wrote several books on birds.
1816 was known as 'the year without a summer' in North America and elsewhere, with widespread unseasonal weather and crop failures. [ 5 ] The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.
