7 events found for 1816
A riot broke out in Littleport, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day be
The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pictured) were published
The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a…
Sir John Barrow, secretary at the Admiralty, rejected a proposal to use Francis Ronalds's electrical telegraph,…
The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony…
Facing rising discontent in France, Louis XVIII was forced to dissolve the Chambre introuvable, the legislature…
HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of Cornwall, England.