1816

Events from the year 1816 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: James Madison (DR-VA)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-KY)
* Congress: 14th
==Events==
* 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.
* April 27 – The Dallas tariff is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812.
* May 11 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City, New York.
* June 1 – Fort Dearborn is reestablished in the place that will become Chicago, IL.
* August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
* November 1 – James Monroe defeats Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.
* November 7 – Jonathan Jennings is inaugurated as the first governor of Indiana.
* December 11 – Indiana admitted becomes the 19th U.S. state.
==Memoriam==
* April 3 – Thomas Machin, military engineer (aged 72; Montgomery, NY, USA)
* May 4 – Samuel Dexter, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 4th United States Secretary of War (aged 54; Boston, MA, USA)
* June 25 – Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice (aged 68; Carlisle, PA, USA)
* August 12 – Mary Katherine Goddard, publisher and postmistress (aged 78; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* August 17 – Samuel Johnston, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1789 to 1793 (aged 82; Edenton, NC, USA)
* September 18 – Bernard McMahon, horticulturalist (aged 41; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* November 8 – Gouverneur Morris, statesman and Founding Father of the U.S. (aged 64; NY, USA)
==External links==
* 1816 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 4