1816

The "Year Without A Summer", caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occured in 1815.
March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg.
May 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.
July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain.
November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election
December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
Tsultrim Gyatso becomes the Dalai Lama.
The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
The Battle of Seven Oaks is fought in the Red River Colony of Canada.
In France, Ren� Laennec (1781-1826) invents the stethoscope.
First known cultivation of the cranberry.
Francis Ellis first describes the Dravidian languages.
The Second Bank of the United States is founded.
E. Remington and Sons is founded.
Buffalo, New York is incorporated.
African Methodist Episcopal Church is founded in Philadelphia.
Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.

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