Editing 1816 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 6]] – (December 25, 1815 on the Russian Julian calendar): [[Tsar]] [[Alexander I of Russia]] signs an order, expelling the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] from [[St. Petersburg]] and Moscow.<ref>[http://www.toughissues.org/whowereczars.htm Who were Czars Alexander I and Alexander II of Russia?], toughissues.org (accessed 2013-12-13). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216121544/https://www.toughissues.org/whowereczars.htm|date=December 16, 2013}}.</ref>
* [[January 9]] – 
**Sir [[Humphry Davy]]'s [[Davy lamp]] is first tested underground as a [[coal mining]] [[safety lamp]], at [[Hebburn]] Colliery in northeast England;<ref>{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Roy|title=Thunder Underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6sgAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2013-01-08|year=2004|publisher=Landmark|location=Ashbourne|isbn=9781843061694|page=121}}</ref> 
**[[Ludwig van Beethoven]] wins the custody battle for his nephew [[Karl van Beethoven|Karl]].
* [[January 17]] – Fire nearly destroys the city of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's, Newfoundland]].
* [[February 10]] – [[Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]], dies and is succeeded by [[Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Friedrich Wilhelm]], his son and founder of the [[House of Glücksburg]].
* [[February 20]] – [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s [[opera buffa]] ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' premières at the [[Teatro Argentina]] in Rome.
* [[March 1]] – The [[Gorkha War]] between the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Nepal]] is ended after more than a year by the ratification of the [[Treaty of Sugauli]], with Nepal ceding about one-third of its territory to British Indian control.<ref>K. L. Pradhan, ''Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839'' (Concept Publishing, 2012), p. 110.</ref>
* [[March 16]] – U.S. Secretary of State [[James Monroe]] is nominated by a caucus of Democratic-Republican Party members of Congress, to be its party's representative in the U.S. presidential election; Monroe receives 65 votes, and Secretary of War [[William H. Crawford]] receives 54 votes.<ref>''The Statesman's Manual: The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, Inaugural, Annual, and Special, from 1789 to 1854'' (E. Walker, 1849) p321</ref>
* [[March 21]] – The [[Institut de France]] is reorganized by King [[Louis XVIII of France]] into four royal academies: a revived [[Académie française]]; the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; the Royal Academy of Sciences; and the [[Académie des Beaux-Arts]].<ref>Louis L. Bucciarelli and Nancy Dworsky, ''Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity'' (Springer, 2012), p. 138.</ref>
* [[March 22]] – The United States signs a treaty with the Cherokee Nation, acknowledging that it will return land in Alabama and Georgia that had been illegally ceded to the U.S. in [[1814]] by the Creek Nation; General Andrew Jackson refuses to honor the treaty, and uses the controversy as a justification for removing Indians from the southeastern United States.<ref>Kenneth J. Hagan and Ian J. Bickerton, ''Unintended Consequences: The United States at War'' (Reaktion Books, 2007), p. 48.</ref>