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1816

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 18th century19th century20th century
Decades: 1780s  1790s  1800s  – 1810s –  1820s  1830s  1840s
Years: 1813 1814 181518161817 1818 1819
1816 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1816
MDCCCXVI
Ab urbe condita2569
Armenian calendar1265
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԵ
Assyrian calendar6566
Balinese saka calendar1737–1738
Bengali calendar1223
Berber calendar2766
British Regnal year56 Geo. 3 – 57 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2360
Burmese calendar1178
Byzantine calendar7324–7325
Chinese calendar乙亥(Wood Pig)
4512 or 4452
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4513 or 4453
Coptic calendar1532–1533
Discordian calendar2982
Ethiopian calendar1808–1809
Hebrew calendar5576–5577
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1872–1873
 - Shaka Samvat1737–1738
 - Kali Yuga4916–4917
Holocene calendar11816
Igbo calendar816–817
Iranian calendar1194–1195
Islamic calendar1231–1232
Japanese calendarBunka 13
(文化13年)
Javanese calendar1742–1744
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4149
Minguo calendar96 before ROC
民前96年
Nanakshahi calendar348
Thai solar calendar2358–2359
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
1942 or 1561 or 789
    — to —
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1943 or 1562 or 790

1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

  • 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
  • March 25 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies
  • May 2 – Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (later known as King of the Belgians) marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
  • June 19 – Battle of Seven Oaks between Hudson Bay and Northwest fur-trading companies, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  • July 9 – Argentina becomes free from Spain
  • July 17 – The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost.
  • August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.