Editing 1816 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[March 29]]–[[April 10]] – The [[Second Bank of the United States]] obtains its charter.
* [[March 30]]–[[April 11]] – In [[Philadelphia]], the [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]] is established by [[Richard Allen (bishop)|Richard Allen]] and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination in the U.S. completely independent of White churches.
* [[April 28]] – The French ''[[Caisse des dépôts et consignations]]'', a public investment body, is created by [[Louis XVIII of France|Louis XVIII]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006072846|title=Ordonnance du 3 juillet 1816 relative aux attributions de la Caisse des dépôts et consignations créée par la loi du 28 avril 1816|work=Legifrance|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>
* April – [[Banjul]], capital of [[the Gambia]], is founded as a trading post named Bathurst.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saho |first1=Bala |title=Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965 |date=2018 |publisher=Michigan State University Press |isbn=9781611862669 |location=East Lansing, Michigan |pages=45–51}}</ref>
* [[May 2]] – [[Leopold I of Belgium|Leopold of Saxe-Coburg]] (later King of the Belgians) marries [[Charlotte Augusta]], daughter of the [[George IV|Prince Regent]], at [[Carlton House]] in London. 
* [[May 8]] – Divorce is abolished in France by the ''[[Chambre introuvable]]'', after having been permitted following the French Revolution.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew J.|last=Counter|title=The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016|page=47}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] (N.S.) ([[May 23]] O.S.) – The [[Governorate of Estonia]] of the Russian Empire emancipates its peasants from [[serfdom]].
* [[June 16]] – The [[Peace Society|Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace]] is founded in London.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ceadel |first=Martin |title=The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730–1854 |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1996 |page=222}}</ref>
* [[June 19]] – [[Battle of Seven Oaks]]: The [[Hudson's Bay Company]] is defeated by the [[North West Company]], near [[Winnipeg]], Canada.