Quotes About 1816

In New England, 1816 became known as the "year without a summer" or "eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death.

CREATED by an eighteen-year-old girl during the freakishly cold, rainy summer of 1816 while on holiday in Switzerland with her married lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and two other writers, the poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would become the foundational work for two important new genres of literature—horror and science fiction.

And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.

Langeron is a popular Odessan beach, named after Alexandre-Louis Andrault de Langeron (1763–1831), who served as mayor of Odessa from 1816 to 1820.