Timeline Sunday 16 June 1816

Events on Sunday 16 June 1816 1

• 1816 Villa Diodati ghost story challenge Lake Geneva gathering produces the seeds of Frankenstein and The Vampyre During a cold, rain-bound summer caused by the Tambora eruption, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent weeks at the Villa Diodati near Geneva. Byron proposed each guest write a ghost story, leading Mary Shelley to conceive Frankenstein and Polidori to write The Vampyre, both published later.