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.

Written in 1780, while secretary to the French Legation to the US Army: " D ' Complot du Benedict Arnold & Sir Henri Clinton contre Eunas ` States du America General George Washington " One of the first accounts of Arnold's treason, was not published until 1816.

In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Royal Society of Sciences at Göttingen, in 1816 was appointed physician to the royal family in Hanover () by the prince regent, in 1821 was made a knight-commander of the Guelphic Order, and in 1831 was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris.

In 1816 he refused an extraordinary professorship at Heidelberg in order to accompany BG Niebuhr to Italy as secretary to the Prussian embassy.

He received private education with his brother John Hodgkin, and in 1816 took a position as private secretary to William Allen.

He was also made a peer of France, member of the privy council, grand-officer and secretary of the orders of Saint Michel and the Saint Esprit, and in 1816 member of the Académie Française.

He was a member of the ( now Royal ) Society of Painters in Water-Colours, and for some time its secretary, but he resigned his membership, and became in 1816 an unsuccessful candidate for the associateship of the Royal Academy.

Later in life, he was appointed secretary of state for Pennsylvania, in 1816, and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1823.

From 1816 until 1839 he was perpetual secretary to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which gave him great influence upon official architecture, and in 1818 he became a professor of archaeology at the Bibliothèque Nationale.

A commission came in 1816 or 1817 from the family of the celebrated Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, for a painting of the Duke receiving papal honors for his repression of the Protestant Reformation.

The last tutor and Vice-Principal Richard Hewitt continued to live in his rooms without students until May 1816, when a commission declared Hertford College dissolved.

At this time the antiquarian world was much occupied with the vexed question of the merits of the Elgin marbles, and Flaxman was one of those whose evidence before the parliamentary commission had most weight in favour of the purchase which was ultimately effected in 1816.

Reading the Will, a commission from the king of Bavaria, now in the New Pinakothek at Munich, was completed in 1820 ; and two years later the great picture of Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo, commissioned by the Duke of Wellington in 1816, at a cost of 1200 guineas, was exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Roon entered the corps of cadets at Culm ( Chełmno ) in 1816, from where in 1818 he proceeded to the military school at Berlin, and in January 1821 received a commission in the 14th ( 3rd Pomeranian ) regiment quartered at Stargard in Pomerania.

George served under Castlereagh in the Irish Volunteers but, after being betrayed by Castlereagh, resigned his commission in disgrace in 1816.

He was on the canal commission for twenty-three years ( 1816 – 1839 ), fourteen of which he served as its president.

At the same time, from 1810 to 1816, he was a member of the Erie Canal Commission, a commission on inland navigation established in 1810 by the New York State Legislature to survey a canal route from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.

He then obtained a commission in a hussar regiment, which he resigned in 1816.

In the following year he became president of the commission for the revision of criminal law, and he at the same time obtained an important office in the finance department, with the rank of counsellor of state ; but in 1816 he returned to Halle to occupy the chair of political economy.

in 1816 won the open competition for the new Dutch anthem with Wien Neêrlandsch bloed ( with lyrics by Hendrik Tollens ), leading to lots of commission from churches and other organizations.