2nd » Marriage of Leopold I of Belgium called Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.
22nd » A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, Ely and Littleport riots of 1816 named riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely, Cambridgeshire named Ely the next day.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1816
24th » Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868)