WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1816
Find out what all happened April to November 1816

The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia. (21. October 1816)

The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. (14. August 1816)

Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados. (14. April 1816)

Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness. (16. June 1816)

The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. (10. April 1816)

Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (19. June 1816)

The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. (24. August 1816)

HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar (15. September 1816)

Argentina declares independence from Spain. (9. July 1816)

A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day. (22. May 1816)

Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber"). (5. September 1816)

Warsaw University is established. (19. November 1816)

Marriage of LĂ©opold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta. (2. May 1816)

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