Editing 1816 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 2]] – The French frigate ''[[French frigate Méduse (1810)|Medusa]]'' runs aground off the coast of [[Senegal]], with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.<ref>{{cite book| last= Snow | first= Edward Rowe | year=1979 | title= Tales of terror and tragedy | publisher= Dodd, Mead | place=New York | isbn= 978-0396077756 |page=67}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – The [[United Provinces of the Río de la Plata|United Provinces of South America]] (today [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]], [[Bolivia]] and southern [[Brazil]]) declares [[Argentine Declaration of Independence|independence]] from Spain.
* [[August 12]]–[[August 24|24]] – The [[Treaty of St. Louis (1816)|Treaty of St. Louis]], between the United States and the [[Council of Three Fires]] tribes, is signed in [[St. Louis]].
* [[August 14]] – The United Kingdom formally annexes the [[Tristan da Cunha]] archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean, ruling it from the [[Cape Colony]].
* [[August 27]] – [[Bombardment of Algiers (1816)|Bombardment of Algiers]]: An anglo-Dutch fleet forces [[Omar Agha]], [[Dey of Algiers]] to free Christian slaves.
* [[September 3]] – [[Pope Pius VII]] sends a directive to [[Stanisław Bohusz Siestrzeńcewicz]], the [[Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mohilev|Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mohilev]], advising Siestrzeńcewicz not to continue the [[Russian Bible Society]]'s plans to circulate the Scriptures written in the [[Russian language]], commenting that "if the Sacred Scriptures were allowed in the vulgar tongue, more detriment than benefit would arise."<ref>Roger Steer, ''Good News for the World: 200 Years of Making the Bible Heard : the Story of Bible Society'' (Monarch Books, 2004), p. 155.</ref>
* [[September 6]] – King [[Louis XVIII of France|Louis XVIII]] dissolves the ''Chambre introuvable'', the legislature that had been elected after the [[Second Restoration|Second Bourbon Restoration]] re-established the old monarchy.<ref>Darrin M. McMahon, ''[[Enemies of the Enlightenment|Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity]]'' (Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 157.</ref>