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Born :12/18/1816Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
Born :10/15/1816Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Born :01/23/1816Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
Born :04/21/1816Charlotte Bront‰, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
Born :07/23/1816Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
Born :07/25/1816Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
Born :12/13/1816Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
Born :08/24/1816Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
Born :03/12/1816David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :12/13/1816E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
Born :04/16/1816Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :10/04/1816Egbert Benson Brown, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Born :12/27/1816Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Born :09/23/1816Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC (Union), died in 1887
Born :05/24/1816Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
Born :10/29/1816Ferdinand II AFA, king of Portugal
Born :01/11/1816Fitz-Henry Warren, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Born :09/06/1816Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Born :04/08/1816Frederick William Burton, painter
Born :07/11/1816French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect
Born :07/31/1816George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
Born :12/06/1816Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Born :01/19/1816Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Born :05/16/1816Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
Born :07/07/1816Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Born :08/04/1816Israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Born :03/29/1816James Gallant Spears, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Born :08/03/1816John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
Born :01/09/1816John Palmer Usher, Secy Int (Union) died in 1889
Born :11/15/1816Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Born :11/03/1816Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
Born :09/23/1816Julius White, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Born :01/26/1816Lloyd Tilghman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :04/21/1816Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874
Born :05/03/1816Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
Born :03/14/1816Montgomery Dent Corse, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Born :01/30/1816Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Born :07/21/1816Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
Born :06/04/1816Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union)
Born :06/11/1816Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Born :05/24/1816Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894)
Born :01/07/1816Stephen Miller, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
Born :07/20/1816William Bowman, English anatomist
Born :11/26/1816William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :11/04/1816William Polk Hardeman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Born :10/16/1816William Preston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
Died :02/22/1816Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies
Died :06/06/1816Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
Died :08/07/1816Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses selectae), dies
Died :07/23/1816Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
Died :10/30/1816Frederik I WK, 1st king of Wrttemberg (1806-16), dies
Died :06/05/1816Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
Died :05/29/1816Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
Interest:04/08/1816[RC] Commemoration of St Julia Billiart, virgin
Special :06/06/181610" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
Special :10/07/18161st double decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans
Special :12/02/18161st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
Special :04/10/18162nd Bank of US chartered
Special :04/09/1816African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
Special :05/11/1816American Bible Society forms (NY)
Special :05/05/1816American Bible Society organized (NY)
Special :12/28/1816American Colonization Society organizes
Special :07/09/1816Argentina declares independence from Spain
Special :12/11/1816Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
Special :07/27/1816Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops
Special :07/01/1816Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
Special :07/08/1816Frost in Waltham, MA
Special :08/14/1816Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
Special :12/11/1816Indiana becomes 19th state
Special :12/04/1816James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
Special :03/06/1816Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
Special :01/22/1816Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "The Siege of Corinth"
Special :08/27/1816Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
Special :02/05/1816Opera "Barber of Seville" is presented (Rome)
Special :12/13/1816Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
Special :02/20/1816Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premiers in Rome
Special :07/19/1816Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days

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