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.

With Minna Waldeck he also had three children: Eugene ( 1811 – 1896 ), Wilhelm ( 1813 – 1879 ) and Therese ( 1816 – 1864 ).

In 1816, Fresnel showed that Huygens ' principle, together with his own principle of interference could explain both the rectilinear propagation of light and also diffraction effects.

" Another July 1816 anonymous review, in the Augustan Review, claimed that the poem's descriptions " have much of the Oriental richness and harmony " but also said, in response to the preface, " There seems to be no great harm in dreaming while one sleeps ; but an author really should not thus dream while he is awake, and writing too.

Missing rings are rare in oak and elm trees — the only recorded instance of a missing ring in oak trees occurred in the year 1816, also known as the Year Without a Summer.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

He also edited Eliza Fay's ( 1756 – 1816 ) letters from India, in an edition first published in 1925.

* Maria I of Portugal ( 1734 – 1816 ) also known as Maria I, the Pious, daughter of Jose of Portugal and Queen Mariana Victoria and mother of Joao VI of Portugal.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient — as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori ( who was Byron's personal physician ).

This district was passed between various territories and departments in the ensuing administrative reorganisations and wars, but was restored to Doubs in 1816 when the former principality of Montbéliard was also added to the department.

He also served on the Virginia General Assembly from 1816 to 1822.

He built a sawmill at Battersea, London ( burnt down in 1814 and rebuilt by 1816 ), which was designed to produce veneers, and he also designed sawmills for entrepreneurs.

The Year Without a Summer ( also known as the Poverty Year, The Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death ) was the year 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0. 4 – 0. 7 ° C ( 0. 7 – 1. 3 ° F ), resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.

Jean Baptiste Berard ( also spelled Boreaux by descendants ) claimed to have settled here in 1816 and had established a trading post in 1831.

Codrington's only Canopus-class battleship was his flagship, HMS Asia ( launched 1824 ), although Genoa ( an impounded French " 74 ") was also post-Napoleonic ( 1816 ).

The University of Maryland School of Law was chartered in 1816, but did not begin classes until 1824, and also closed during the Civil War.

Cuvier also collaborated on the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles ( 61 volumes, 1816 – 1845 ) and on the Biographie universelle ( 45 volumes, 1843-18 ??

He also rebuilt the Norman church in 1816, where he was buried two years later.

On the recommendation of a parliamentary committee, which also vindicated Elgin's conduct, the " Marbles " were bought by Great Britain in 1816 for £ 35, 000, considerably below their cost to Elgin ( estimated at £ 75, 000 ), and deposited in the British Museum, where they remain.

The castle was rebuilt in the mid-17th century, and again in 1816 by Joseph Medworth, who also developed The Crescent, familiar as the setting in numerous costume dramas.

He was also involved in public polemics, and in 1816 wrote Über die Gefährdung des Wohlstandes und des Charakters der Deutschen durch die Juden (" On the Danger Posed by the Jews to German Well-Being and Character "), advocating among other things a distinct sign on the dress of Jews to distinguish them from the general population, and encouraging their emigration from German lands.

The name refers ultimately to the Fitzwilliam family, prominent members of the Anglo-Irish nobility, whose ancestral seat Milton Hall is located to the north of Cambridge and who, as students and benefactors, have been associated with the university for several hundred years ; more directly, it refers to the Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library, art collection and personal fortune of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam and situated directly opposite the original headquarters of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, and also to the adjacent Fitzwilliam Street, where many of the non-collegiate students were housed.

He also wrote a history of Alfred the Great ( 1816 ); a life of St. Vincent de Paul ; translated passages from the works of St. Augustine, and also wrote meditations on the Holy Scriptures, which, however, together with the Büchlein der Liebe, and the polemical pamphlet Kurze Abfertigung des langen Schmähschrifts des Hofrats Voss, did not appear until after his death.

" Lachmann also edited Propertius ( 1816 ); Catullus ( 1829 ); Tibullus ( 1829 ); Genesius ( 1834 ); Terentianus Maurus ( 1836 ); Babrius ( 1845 ); Avianus ( 1845 ); Gaius ( 1841-1842 ); the Agrimensores Romani ( 1848-1852 ); and Lucilius ( edited after his death by Vahlen, 1876 ).