Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
Samuel Dexter (May 14, 1761 – May 4, 1816) was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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- 20Feb
The Barber of Seville
Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. - 10Apr
Second Bank of the United States
The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. - 22May
Ely and Littleport riots of 1816
A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day. - 5Aug
Electrical telegraph
The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore. - 14Aug
Cape Colony
The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.