Video: 'Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Top # 15 Facts'

(Monday, December 2, 1816) — The first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business today in the office of the Saving Fund Society’s first Secretary and Treasurer, George Billington, located on the west side of South Sixth Street, between Chestnut and Market Streets.

Video: '4/14/16 1816: The Year Without A Summer'

(Thursday, June 6, 1816) — A snowstorm struck the northeastern U.S. today, specifically in Albany, New York, and Dennysville, Maine, heralding what would become known as the “Year Without a Summer.”

Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies.

Video: 'Biography Lord Byron Full Documentary'

(Monday, April 25, 1816) — Romantic poet Lord Byron, beset by financial problems and personal turmoil (including a failed marriage), left his native England today at age 28, never to return.

Video: 'LHS-APUSH 2013-Martin vs. Hunter's Lesse'

(Wednesday, March 20, 1816) — U.S. Supreme Court, in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, unanimously affirmed its right to review state court decisions under the Judiciary Act of 1789.

Video: 'The Barber of Seville'

(Tuesday, February 20, 1816) — The opera buffa The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini premiered today at the Teatro Argentina in Rome under its original title, “Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution.”

Although Rossini’s opera received a hostile reception from the audience the first night, it fared much better at its next performance.

Video: 'The War of 1812 - History - Documentary' (July 18, 1815 at 1:48:54)

(Tuesday, July 18, 1815) — Five months after the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British peacefully turned over Fort Mackinac today to American Colonel Anthony Butler, then left for Drummond Island.

Video: 'Napoleon Bonaparte Biography'

(Thursday, June 22, 1815) — Napoleon Bonaparte, 45, today abdicated for a second time as Emperor of the French, this time in favor of his son Napoleon II.

Video: 'Top 5 Most Bizarre Disasters' (Oct. 17, 1814, at 0:07)

(Monday, October 17, 1814, around 5:30 p.m. local time) — The London Beer Flood inundated the St. Giles district of the British capital as a vat at Meux’s Brewery on Tottenham Court Road ruptured, causing other vats to burst as well and sending more than 320,000 gallons of beer into the streets; up to nine people were reported killed.

Video: 'The Forgotten War of 1812.' (Sep. 13, 1814, at 1:48:05)

(Tuesday, September 13, 1814, dawn local time; part of the Battle of Baltimore and War of 1812) — British naval forces began bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore today but were driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning.