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March 11 – U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress. April – The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication.
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [2] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern ...
1816 was known as 'the year without a summer' in North America and elsewhere, with widespread unseasonal weather and crop failures. [ 5 ] The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.
1824 – Gibbons v. Ogden (22 US 1 1824) affirms federal over state authority in interstate commerce. Gibbons' business partner is Cornelius Vanderbilt. 1824 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: Presidential results inconclusive. John C. Calhoun elected vice president. 1825 – John Quincy Adams elected president by the House of Representatives;
1816–1828: Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa. 1816–1817: widespread economic distress in Europe. [4] Year Without a Summer: Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere, likely influenced by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora. Independence of Argentina. Dandy horse/velocipede bicycle ...
1816 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1816th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 816th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1816, the ...
Clay's 1833 compromise tariff specified that all duties more than 20% of the value of the goods imported were to be reduced by easy stages, so that by 1842, the duties on all articles would reach the level of the moderate tariff of 1816. The rest of the South declared South Carolina's course unwise and unconstitutional.
1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1824th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 824th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1824, the ...