American Aid Society donated food and clothing at the St. Martins Boy school to 50 poor and needy the day before, as reported in the Barbados Advocate.
Ester Phillips formally Ester Innis was born. Esther Phillips was the first and only Poet Laureate of Barbados to date.
Anderson Cummins right arm cricketer was born.
The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette April 9th 1816, highlighted a number of enslaved persons who had run away