1816 - 1816 (0 years)
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| 1 | 1816 | - 1816—1816:
SA - Missionaries Read and Hamilton; with Hendriks; Kakkerlak and Sedras establish Kuruman Mission (LMS)
- 1816—1816:
SA - Wesleyan Mission to Nama at Leliefontein
- 1816—1816:
Income tax abolished
- 1816—1816:
For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially
below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage
- 1816—1816:
Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years
- 1816—1816:
Large scale emigration to North America
- 1816—1816:
Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
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