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

* July 25 – Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer ( d. 1816 )

* George Hamilton Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1816 – 1864 )

For the history of Hamilton County prior to 1816 see Montgomery County, New York

* Gustavus Hamilton, 5th Viscount Boyne ( 1749 – 1816 )

The History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Ohio, published in 1894, indicates that Smith died in Hamilton County, Ohio on June 10, 1816, although this is apparently incorrect, since later sources agree on his death in 1824.

* Wentworth County ( 1816 – 1970 ) became Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Municipality, now the City of Hamilton, a single-tier municipality.

Elizabeth Hamilton ( 1756 ?– 1816 ) was a British essayist, poet, satirist and novelist.

Paul Hamilton ( October 16, 1762 – June 30, 1816 ) was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy, from 1809 to 1813.

Secretary Hamilton resigned at the end of 1812 and returned to South Carolina, where he died in Beaufort on June 30, 1816.

The township included Hamilton and existed from 1816 – 1973, later became Village and City of Hamilton

* 1 December-Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton ( born 1816 ).

The work was first published in London in 1816 ( see 1816 in poetry ) under the title Alastor ; or, The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems, printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Pater-Noster Row ; and Carpenter and Son, Old Bond-Street: by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, consisting of the title poem and the following additional poems:

Alexander Hamilton ( 1816 – 1889 ) became president of the board of trustees.

In 1816, parts of Oneida and Onondaga Counties were taken to form the new Oswego County.

In 1816, parts of Oneida and Onondaga Counties were taken to form the new Oswego County.

133 years older than Orange County Indiana ( 1816 ),

* Calvin Fairbank, ( 1816 – 1898 ), born in Allegany County ( now Wyoming County ), Methodist clergyman and staunch abolitionist.

In 1816, the territory organized Montgomery County, and its lands were sold off the next year at the federal land office in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Montgomery County was established by dividing Monroe County on December 6, 1816 by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature.

* San Antonio de Pala Asistencia ( Pala Mission ), founded in 1816 in eastern San Diego County

Marengo County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818, from land acquired from the Choctaw Indians by the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens on October 24, 1816.

The original name continued until 1816, when it was changed to Wellsburg, to avoid confusion with Charles Town, Jefferson County.

Texas pioneer William Whitaker Reed was born in Bedford County in 1816.

Snow has been recorded in Somerset County in every month except July, although local lore has it that even July saw snow in 1816, " the year without a summer.

In 1816, Franklin County ’ s Columbus became Ohio ’ s state capital.

In the years between first ground-breaking and the actual movement of the capital in 1816, Columbus and Franklin County grew significantly.

Penobscot County was established on 15 February 1816 from a portion of Hancock County.

The Washington County Courthouse, completed in 1816, is the oldest courthouse still in use in Kentucky.

Abraham Lincoln lived in Spencer County from 1816 to 1830, between the ages seven and twenty-one.

Formed on December 21, 1816, Pike County was the first county formed after Indiana became a state.

Orange County was formed from parts of Knox, Gibson and Washington Counties by an act approved on December 26, 1815 ; it took effect on February 1, 1816.

Dearborn County was formed as part of the Indiana Territory in 1803, and its borders were modified several times, both before and after the creation of the state of Indiana in 1816.

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

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.

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

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the College's royal charter to make the school a public university.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

The first trial of a Davy lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on 9 January 1816.

His father was Rufus King Bellamy ( 1816 – 1886 ), a Baptist minister and a descendant of Joseph Bellamy.

One of the leading German universities for many centuries, it fell upon hard times in the early 19th century, and was forced to close in 1816.

Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland ( where John Allan was born ) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.

The layout of the first ecological experiment, carried out in a grass garden at Woburn Abbey in 1816, was noted by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species.

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.

William Gordon ( d. 1816 ), eldest son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a General in the Army.

In 1816 the Løgting ( the Faroese parliament ) was officially abolished and replaced by a Danish judiciary.

Rossini's most famous opera was produced on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.

In the 13th century, the term " hobyn " was used, meaning " small horse or pony ", and by 1816 the derivative, " hobby ", had been introduced into the vocabulary of an unknown number of English people.

The sons of Montgolfier obtained an English patent for an improved version in 1816, and this was acquired, together with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer who had just moved to London.

Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson.

He was the son of Maria Magdalena ( née Vorfelder ) and Johann Jacob Astor ( July 7, 1724-April 18, 1816 ), a butcher.