* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* Haliotis cyclobates Péron, 1816 – the whirling abalone

** Haliotis rubra conicopora Péron, 1816 – synonym: Haliotis conicopora – the conical pore abalone

* 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

* Adrian Zingg ( 1734 – 1816 ), Swiss painter

* 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist ( d. 1856 )

* 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

* 1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author ( d. 1855 )

* 1816 – The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

She was a daughter of Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1768 – 1816 ) and his wife Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.

Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, Thomas Whitcombe, 1816, National Maritime Museum – the climax of the battle, as Orient explodes

#** Antoine Lucien Bonaparte ( 1816 – 1877 )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

He passed the examination in the elements of mathematics and the theory of navigation at the Royal Naval Academy on 2 – 4 September 1816, and became a 1st Lieutenant on 1 September 1818.

Hiram Walker ( July 4, 1816 – January 12, 1899 ) was an American grocer and distiller, and the eponym of the famous distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

* Walker, Thomas James, The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire, 1796 to 1816, London, Constable, 1913 E-book version ( very poorly proof-read )

Thereafter the book went out of fashion until the time of the Romantic revival of interest in all things medieval ; the year 1816 saw a new edition by Walker and Edwards, and another one by Wilks, both based on the 1634 Stansby edition.

* 1816 – Regent's Bridge, crossing the River Thames in central London, designed by James Walker, was opened.

Walker ( 1816 – 1864 ), Confederate general in the American Civil War

Dr Ryle was born in Onslow Square, South Kensington, London, on 25 May 1856, the second son of John Charles Ryle ( 1816 – 1900 ), the first Bishop of Liverpool, and his second wife, Jessie Elizabeth Walker.

In 1816, Walker was elected to the 15th United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican.

Francis Walker was the son of John Walker of Arnos Grove a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Born into a wealthy and highly educated family Francis spent the years 1816 ( when he was seven years old ) to 1820 ( when he was eleven ) in Switzerland at Geneva, Lucerne and Vevey where the family party was joined by Madame de Staël, the poet Lord Byron and some Swiss naturalists gathered around Nicolas Théodore de Saussure.

Peter Cunningham FSA ( 1816 – 1869 ) was a Scottish writer, son of Allan Cunningham and his wife Jean ( née Walker, 1791 – 1866 ).

When in 1816 an act of Congress forced the foreign firm out of the United States, its British-born employees, now become American citizens -- Joseph Rolette, Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly -- continued in the fur business.

With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted for the acanthus tobacco leaves, of which he sent a sketch to Thomas Jefferson in a letter, November 5, 1816.

American Revolutionary War veteran Henry Hall is credited as first to farm cranberries in the Cape Cod town of Dennis around 1816.

* 1816 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier ( d. 1890 )

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

He was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and after 1816 served as its President.

* 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician ( d. 1894 )

* 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher ( d. 1816 )

Facing little opposition from the fractured Federalist Party, Monroe was easily elected president in 1816, winning over 80 percent of the electoral vote and becoming the last president during the First Party System era of American politics.

Monroe was part of the American Colonization Society formed in 1816, which members included Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson.

The wealthy African-American shipowner Paul Cuffee thought this was a worthwhile exercise, and with support from certain members of Congress and British officials conveyed 38 American Blacks to Freetown in 1816 at his own expense.

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

* Tuve Hasselquist ( 1816 – 1891 ), Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader

* 1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.

* 1816 – Alexander H. Bullock, American politician ( d. 1882 )

* 1753 – James McHenry, American statesman ( d. 1816 )

* 1816 – Jubal Early, American Confederate general ( d. 1894 )

* 1816 – Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister ( d. 1898 )

* 1762 – Paul Hamilton, American politician ( d. 1816 )

* 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University ( b. 1816 )

* Richard Stanford ( 1767 – 1816 ), American congressman

* Philippe de Trobriand ( 1816 – 1897 ), author, American military officer

The Federalist Party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the First Party System, with remnants lasting into the 1820s.