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was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar).
- The feared Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins in January.
- Known as the " Year Without A Summer " or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora Volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815 .
- January 9 - Sir Humphry Davy tested the Davy Lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- February 12 - Fire nearly destroyed the city of St. John's , Newfoundland .
- February 20 - Gioachino Rossini 's '' The Barber Of Seville '' debuts at Teatro Argentina , with a ''fiasco''.
- 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-Glücksburg , his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg .
- May 2 - Leopold Of Saxe-Coburg , later 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 gains independence from Spain
- July 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.
- August 24 - The Treaty With The Ottawa, Etc. is signed in St. Louis , Missouri .
- 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 10th 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 , René 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.
- Large-scale slave insurrection in Barbados - one white and 176 slaves killed and 214 executed afterwards
- Divorce annulled in France
- The Senate Of Finland is established
- April 21 - Charlotte Brontë , British novelist (d. 1855 )
- April 22 - Charles Denis Bourbaki , French general (d. 1897 )
- April 25 - Eliza Daniel Stewart , American Temperance Movement leader (d. ?)
- May 24 - Emanuel Leutze , American painter (d. 1868 )
- July 4 - Arthur De Gobineau , French diplomat and author (d. 1882 )
- July 23 - Charlotte Cushman , American stage actress (d. 1876 )
- July 31 - George Henry Thomas , American general (d. 1870 )
- November 17 - August Wilhelm Ambros , Austrian composer (d. 1876 )
- December 8 - August Belmont, Sr. , Prussian-born financier (d. 1890 )
- December 13 - Werner Von Siemens , German inventor and industrialist (d. 1892 )
- William Marsh Rice , American university founder (d. 1900 )
- Charles John Vaughan , English scholar (d. 1897 )
- William Henry Webb , American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1899 )
- Francis Dutton , Premier Of South Australia (d. 1877 )
- January 27 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood , British admiral (b. 1724 )
- February 6 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska , Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744 )
- February 22 - Adam Ferguson , Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723 )
- March 20 - Queen Maria I Of Portugal (b. 1734 )
- June 5 - Giovanni Paisiello , Italian composer (b. 1751 )
- June 12 - Pierre François Charles Augereau, Duc De Castiglione , French marshal (b. 1757 )
- July 5 - Dorothy Jordan , Irish actress, mistress of King William IV Of The United Kingdom (b. 1761 )
- July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Irish playwright (b. 1751 )
- November 8 - Gouverneur Morris , American statesman (b. 1752 )
- December 15 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope , English statesman and scientist (b. 1753 )
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