10th » The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
14th » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1816
5th » Samuel Freeman Miller, American physician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1890)
17th » Thomas Hazlehurst (chapel builder) called Thomas Hazlehurst, English architect (d. 1876)
20th » Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
21st » Charlotte Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1855)
22nd » Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
Famous Deaths for April 1816
28th » Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1762)