1816 in the United States

Incumbents

[[Federal government of the United States|Federal government]]

• President: James Madison (DR-Virginia)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky)
• Congress: 14th

State governments

Events

• April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
• April 27 – The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812.
• May 11 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City, New York.
• June – Fort Dearborn is reestablished in the place that will become Chicago, IL.
• August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
• November – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.
• November 7 – Jonathan Jennings is sworn in as the first governor of Indiana.
• December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state (see History of Indiana).

Undated

• 1816 was known as 'the year without a summer' in North America and elsewhere, with widespread unseasonal weather and crop failures.
• The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.
• E. Remington and Sons (the firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded in Ilion, New York.
• George Bourne, possibly the first immediate and total U.S. abolitionist, publishes The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable.

Births

• January 3 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1873 and railroad president (died 1891)
• January 30 – Nathaniel P. Banks, politician and general (died 1894)
• March 1 – John Souther, mechanical engineer (died 1911)
• March 14 – William Marsh Rice, university founder (died 1900)
• April 25 – Eliza Daniel Stewart, temperance leader (died 1908)
• May 3 – Montgomery C. Meigs, career United States Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War (died 1892)
• June 19 – William Henry Webb, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1899)
• July 4 – James B. Howell, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1870 to 1871 (died 1880)
• July 23 – Charlotte Cushman, actress (died 1876)
• July 31 – George Henry Thomas, U.S. Army general (died 1870)
• August 4
  • William Julian Albert, Congressman (died 1879)
  • Russell Sage, financier, railroad president and politician (died 1906)
• October 11 – William W. Eaton, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1875 to 1881 (died 1898)
• October 20 – James W. Grimes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1859 to 1869 (died 1872)
• October 26 – Philip Pendleton Cooke, lawyer and poet (died 1850)
• November 3 – Jubal Early, Confederate general (died 1894)
• November 4 – James L. Alcorn, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1871 to 1877 (died 1894)
• November 29
  • Henry Mower Rice, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1858 to 1863 (died 1894)
  • Morrison Waite, 7th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1888)
• December 12 – Thomas C. McCreery, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1868 to 1871 (died 1890)
• December 13 – Clement Claiborne Clay, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1853 to 1862, Confederate States Senator from Alabama from 1862 to 1864 (died 1882)

Deaths

• April 3 – Thomas Machin, military engineer (born 1744 in Great Britain)
• May 4 – Samuel Dexter, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 4th United States Secretary of War (born 1761)
• June 25 – Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice (born 1748 in Great Britain)
• August 12 – Mary Katherine Goddard, publisher and postmistress (born 1738)
• September 18 – Bernard McMahon, horticulturalist (born c. 1775 in Ireland)
• November 8 – Gouverneur Morris, statesman and Founding Father of the U.S. (born 1752)

References

References

1. "1816-1860: The Second American Party System and the Tariff". Tax History Museum.
2. Albert Bushnell Hart. (1897). "Formation Of The Union – Chapters XI-XII". WebRoots.
3. "A Timeline of American Bible Society". American Bible Society.
4. "History of Fort Dearborn".
5. Oppenheimer, Clive (2003). "Climatic, environmental and human consequences of the largest known historic eruption: Tambora volcano (Indonesia) 1815". Progress in Physical Geography. 27 (2): 230–259. doi:10.1191/0309133303pp379ra.
6. Murray, Andrew E.. (1988). ""The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable," by George Bourne". American Presbyterians.