1816

Year 1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. This year was known as the 'Year Without a Summer' because of low temperatures in the northern hemisphere, the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815.
Events
January–March

January 6 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order for the expulsion of the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow.
January 7 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
February 8 – The Governorate of Estonia of the Russian Empire emancipates its peasants from serfdom.
February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder
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