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* 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.
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* 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.
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Byron features, under the codename of ' Lord Ruthven ', in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel: Glenarvon ( 1816 ).
The East India Company Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1816 – 1821 ), was appointed by and directly reported to Lord Bathurst, the Secretary for War and the Colonies, in London.
In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam.
* Lord Arthur Somerset ( 1780 – 1816 ), MP for Monmouthshire
* Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard 1816 – 1824
* Glenarvon ( 1816 ) by Lady Caroline Lamb which chronicles her affair with Lord Byron ( thinly disguised as the title character ).
Braid was appointed surgeon to Lord Hopetoun's mines at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, in 1816 ; and in 1825 he set up in private practice at Dumfries.
The Pemmican Proclamation, the ensuing Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816, and its violence, resulted in Lord Selkirk arresting William McGillivray and several North West Company proprietors, seizing their outpost property in Fort William and charging them with responsibility for the deaths of twenty-one people at Seven Oaks.
* February 1816 – George Canning succeeds Lord Buckinghamshire at the Board of Control
By 1816, the violence intensified between the Métis and the newcomers, which resulted in the Battle of Seven Oaks, causing the deaths of 25 of Lord Selkirk's men, including the newly appointed governor.
Bombardment of Algiers ( 1816 ) | Bombardment of Algiers on August 1816 by the History of the Royal Navy | British Royal Navy, commanded by Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth | Lord Exmouth and painted by Thomas Luny. Conflicts between the Barbary States and the newly independent United States of America culminated in the First ( 1801 – 1805 ) and Second ( 1815 ) Barbary Wars.
An Anglo-Dutch force, led by Admiral Lord Exmouth, carried out a punitive expedition, the August 1816 bombardment of Algiers.
* Admiral Lord William FitzRoy ( 1 June 1782 – 13 May 1857 ), who married Georgiana Raikes ( died 2 December 1861 ) in 1816 and had two children.
Only two people were ever degraded — Lord Cochrane in 1813 and General Sir Eyre Coote in 1816, both for political reasons, rather than any of the grounds given in the statute.
In 1816 Staunton proceeded as second commissioner on a special mission to Beijing with Lord Amherst and Sir Henry Ellis.
Lord Upper Ossory was also responsible for a cross commemorating Katherine of Aragon, with an inscription by Horace Walpole, and a row of thatched cottages built between 1812 and 1816 to house his estate workers.
The word was first used ( as millionnaire, double " n ") in French in 1719 by Steven Fentiman, and is first recorded in English ( millionaire, as a French term ) in a letter of Lord Byron of 1816, then in print in Vivian Grey, a novel of 1826 by Benjamin Disraeli.
His son from his first marriage, the third Earl, served as Lord Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire from 1794 to 1816 and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1784 to 1794.
On 15 October 1816 the Romantic poet Lord Byron visited the library.
** Henry Thomas Leopold Fox-Strangways, Lord Stavordale ( 1816 – 1837 )
* George Philip Stuart, 14th Earl of Moray, 18th Lord Gray ( 1816 – 1895 )
His son Patrick, de jure seventeenth Lord, was also unsuccessful when he tried to claim the title in 1816.
The generic name commemorates Clarke Abel, a keen naturalist who accompanied Lord Amherst's unsuccessful embassy to China in 1816 as surgeon, under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks.
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