1816 - What happened in 1816 ?
February 1816
Tuesday 20:
Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
May 1816
Thursday 02:
Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta are wed.
Monday 06:
The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
» May 1816
July 1816
Tuesday 09:
Argentina declares independence from Spain
Wednesday 17:
The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
October 1816
Monday 07:
The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
November 1816
Tuesday 19:
Warsaw University is established.
December 1816
Wednesday 11:
Citizens of Geneva, Switzerland repel attack by Savoy.
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