1816 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1816 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

9 January - Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp at Hebburn Colliery in the Durham Coalfield.^[1]
18 March - Income tax abolished.^[2]
May 2 – Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (later King of the Belgians) marries Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter of the Prince Regent, but she dies the following year.
22 May - Littleport and Ely riots break out as a result of economic distress in East Anglia.^[3]
13 August - An earthquake in Aberdeen is the strongest ever in Scotland.^[4]
27 August - Britain and the Netherlands bombard Algiers in an attempt to suppress slavery by the North African Barbary states.
23–27 October - Completion of the Leeds to Liverpool canal.^[5]
2 December - Spa Fields riots: a mass meeting of conspirators dispersed by the police.^[6]

The Coinage Act and Great Recoinage attempt to stabilise the currency by reintroduction of a silver coinage (for transactions under forty shillings) and changing the gold coinage from the guinea valued at 21 shillings to the slightly lighter sovereign worth 20 shillings and defining the value of the pound sterling relative to gold.^[7]
By the Pillory Abolition Act, use of the pillory is limited to punishment for perjury.
The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the nation from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum.
The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is completed.
Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.
Year Without a Summer.

21 April - Charlotte Brontë, English novelist (died 1855)
30 June - Richard Lindon, inventor (died 1887)
16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff (died 1897)

27 January - Viscount Hood, admiral (born 1724)
22 February - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (born 1723)
5 July - Dorothy Jordan, Irish actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (born 1761)
7 July - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (born 1751)
15 December - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, statesman and scientist (born 1753)

↑ Thompson, Roy (2004). Thunder Underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865. Ashbourne: Landmark. p. 121. ISBN 9781843061694. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
↑ "A tax to beat Napoleon". HM Revenue & Customs. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
↑ Johnson, C (1893). An account of the Ely and Littleport Riots in 1816. Littleport: Harris.
↑ The Guinness Book of Answers (3rd ed.). Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. 1980. p. 56. ISBN 0-85112-202-7.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 248. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
1 2 3 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 365–366. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ The British Almanac. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1856.

Years in the United Kingdom

Years in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Years in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

1816 in Europe

Sovereign states	Andorra Austria Baden Denmark France Germany Hungary Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Papal States Portugal Prussia Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta

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