Incumbents

• President
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
  : James Madison
  James Madison
  James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...
  
   (Democratic-Republican)
• Vice President
  Vice President of the United States
  The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...
  
  : vacant
• Chief Justice
  Chief Justice of the United States
  The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...
  
  : John Marshall
  John Marshall
  John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the United States whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches...
  
  
• Speaker of the House of Representatives
  Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...
  
  : Henry Clay
  Henry Clay
  Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...
  
   (Dem.-Rep.-Kentucky)
• Congress
  United States Congress
  The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
  
  : 14th
  14th United States Congress
  - Senate :* President: Vacant* President pro tempore: John Gaillard of South Carolina, first elected December 4, 1815- House of Representatives :* Speaker: Henry Clay of Kentucky-Members:This list is arranged by chamber, then by state...
  
  

Events

• April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church
  African Methodist Episcopal Church
  The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the...
  
   is established by Richard Allen
  Richard Allen (reverend)
  Richard Allen was a minister, educator and writer, and the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal , the first independent black denomination in the United States in 1816. He opened his first church in 1794 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was elected the first bishop of the AME Church...
  
   and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
• April 27 – The Dallas tariff
  Dallas tariff
  The United States passed the Tariff of 1816 and enforced it between 1816 and 1824.Introduced following a report from Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas and adopted by the Fourteenth Congress, the tariff was staunchly supported by Henry Clay, then Speaker of the House, who saw the measure...
  
   is passed in Congress seeking to protect American manufacturing against an influx of cheaper British goods following the War of 1812
  War of 1812
  The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...
  
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• August 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis
  Treaty of St. Louis
  The Treaty of St. Louis is one of many treaties signed between the United States and various Native American tribes.-1804 - Sauk and Fox :...
  
   is signed in St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
  
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• November – James Monroe
  James Monroe
  James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...
  
   defeats Rufus King
  Rufus King
  Rufus King was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
  
   in the U.S. presidential election.
• December 11 – Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
   is admitted as the 19th U.S. state
  U.S. state
  A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
  
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Undated

• The Second Bank of the United States
  Second Bank of the United States
  The Second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816, five years after the First Bank of the United States lost its own charter. The Second Bank of the United States was initially headquartered in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, the same as the First Bank, and had branches throughout the...
  
   obtains its charter.
• E. Remington and Sons
  E. Remington and Sons
  E. Remington and Sons was a manufacturer of firearms and typewriters. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, on March 1, 1873 it started manufacturing the first commercial typewriter.-Becoming "E. Remington & Sons":...
  
   (the firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded.
• The American Bible Society
  American Bible Society
  The American Bible Society is an interconfessional, non-denominational, nonprofit organization, founded in 1816 in New York City, which publishes, distributes and translates the Bible and provides study aids and other tools to help people engage with the Bible.It is probably best known for its...
  
   is founded in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
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Further reading

• Merrill Moores. Indiana In 1816. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1916), pp. 271-280
• Otto L. Schmidt. The Mississippi Valley in 1816 Through an Englishman's Diary. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Sep., 1927), pp. 138-155
• Julian P. Boyd. John Sergeant's Mission to Europe for the Second Bank of the United States: 1816-1817. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 58, No. 3 (1934), pp. 213-231
• Charles G. Davis, Ninian Edwards, Wm. Clark, George Graham, Lane K. Newberry, C. J. Bulliet. The Indian Boundary Line under the Treaty of August 24, 1816. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Apr., 1935), pp. 26-64
• Edwin Adams Davis, John C. L. Andreassen. From Louisville to New Orleans in 1816 Diary of William Newton Mercer. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Aug., 1936), pp. 390-402
• L. G. Moffatt, J. M. Carrière. A Frenchman Visits Norfolk, Fredericksburg and Orange County, 1816. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Apr., 1945), pp. 101-123
• Harold W. Ryan, George Izard. Diary of a Journey by George Izard, 1815-1816. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Apr., 1952), pp. 67-76
• Charles E. Peterson. Dutch Brick for Baltimore, 1816. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Mar., 1954), pp. 26-27
• Joseph B. Hoyt. The Cold Summer of 1816. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1958), pp. 118-131
• Journal of the Convention of the Indiana Territory, 1816. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2 (June 1965), pp. 77-87, 89-156
• George T. Blakey. Rendezvous with Republicanism: John Pope vs. Henry Clay in 1816. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 62, No. 3 (September 1966), pp. 233-250
• Ronald L. Stuckey. Thomas Nuttall's 1816 Ohio Valley Plant Collections Described in His "Genera" of 1818. Castanea, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1966), pp. 187-198
• William G. Morgan. The Congressional Nominating Caucus of 1816: The Struggle against the Virginia Dynasty. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 461-475
• Joseph G. Rayback. A Myth Re-Examined: Martin van Buren's Role in the Presidential Election of 1816. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 124, No. 2 (Apr. 29, 1980), pp. 106-118
• David Hosford, Mary Bagot. Exile in Yankeeland: The Journal of Mary Bagot, 1816-1819. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 51, [The 51st separately bound book] (1984), pp. 30-50
• Douglas R. Egerton. To the Tombs of the Capulets: Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia, 1816-1817. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Apr., 1985), pp. 155-174
• C. Edward Skeen. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei": The Compensation Act of 1816 and the Rise of Popular Politics. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 253-274
• William T. Bianco, David B. Spence, John D. Wilkerson. The Electoral Connection in the Early Congress: The Case of the Compensation Act of 1816. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 145-171