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The feared Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins in January.

Known as the "Year Without A Summer" or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.

January 9 - Sir Humphry Davy tested the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.

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February

February 12 - Fire nearly destroyed the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
February 20 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.

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March

March 23 - Emancipation from serfdom in Estonia
March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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April

April 11 - In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.

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May

May 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.

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June

June 19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Hudson Bay and Northwest fur-trading companies, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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July

July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain
July 17 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.

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August

August 24 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

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November

November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.

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December

December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.

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Unknown dates

Tsultrim Gyatso becomes the 10th Dalai Lama.
The British found Banjul, The Gambia.
A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.
The Battle of Seven Oaks is fought in the Red River Colony of Canada.
In France, René Laennec (1781-1826) invents the stethoscope.
First known cultivation of the cranberry.
Francis Ellis first describes the Dravidian languages.
The Second Bank of the United States is founded.
E. Remington and Sons is founded.
Buffalo, New York is incorporated.
Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.
Large-scale slave insurrection in Barbados - one white and 176 slaves killed and 214 executed afterwards
Divorce annulled in France
The Senate of Finland is established
Aleksandrów Łódzki founded by Rafał Bratoszewski

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Births

April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, British novelist (d. 1855)
April 22 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
April 25 - Eliza Daniel Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. ?)
May 24 - Emanuel Leutze, American painter (d. 1868)
June 19 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1899)
June 30 - Richard Lindon, Inventor of the Rugby Ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder, the Brass Hand Pump for the same (d. 1887)
July 4 - Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat and author (d. 1882)
July 23 - Charlotte Cushman, American stage actress (d. 1876)
July 31 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
August 4 - William Julian Albert, U.S. Congressman (d. 1879)
November 17 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
December 8 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (d. 1890)
December 13 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1892)
William Marsh Rice, American university founder (d. 1900)
Charles John Vaughan, English scholar (d. 1897)
Francis Dutton, Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)

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Deaths

January 27 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
February 6 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
February 22 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
March 20 - Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1734)
June 5 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1751)
June 12 - Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione, French marshal (b. 1757)
July 5 - Dorothy Jordan, Irish actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761)
July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (b. 1751)
November 8 - Gouverneur Morris, American statesman (b. 1752)
December 15 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English statesman and scientist (b. 1753)