In the U.S., that year was also known as “Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death”. The following is from my article about an 1816 Large Cent in my coin collection.

“The year 1816 was a hard year in American history, indeed for all of the Northern Hemisphere. We called it the Year Without A Summer. Asians probably had even stronger names for it as it hit harder there. America did not get off easy, though. Crops were destroyed by frost. It snowed in Albany, New York in June. This climate disruption may have been caused by a major volcanic eruption in 1815. Food costs increased greatly, people suffered and even migrated to escape the hardships. Settlements in western New York and beyond to the Northwest Territories were encouraged by the crop failures in New England.”