north of Orange River. Date unknown The British East India Company monopoly on China trade ends. It appoints a Tea Committee to assess the potential of Assam tea. The Medical School of Louisiana (later Tulane University) is founded in New Orleans. Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of the Analytical Engine, a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his lifetime. Thomas Davenport, inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars. The Romanian language is banned in the schools and government facilities of the Russian Empire's Bessarabia Governorate. Births January–June January 7 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist, inventor (d. 1874) January 15 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (d. 1911) January 17 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (d. 1914) January 20 – Piet Joubert, Boer politician, military commander (d. 1900) January 25 – Alina Frasa, Finnish ballerina (d. 1899) February 6 – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist who discovered Diphtheria (d. 1913) February 8 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907) February 9 – Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912) February 16 – Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist, philosopher (d. 1919) February 19 – Charles Davis Lucas, British Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1914) February 27 – Charles C. Carpenter, American admiral (d. 1899) March 5 – Félix de Blochausen, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915) March 16 – Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907) March 17 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, inventor (d. 1900) March 20 – Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (d. 1926) March 23 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858) March 24 John Wesley Powell, American explorer (d. 1902) William Morris, English poet, artist (d. 1896) April 2 – Paškal Buconjić, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (d. 1910) April 26 – Artemus Ward, American humorist (d. 1867) May 20 – Albert Niemann, German chemist (d. 1861) May 23 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor (d. 1890) June 19 – Charles Spurgeon, English Baptist preacher (d. 1892) July–December July 2 – Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist, historian (d. 1917) July 4 – Christopher Dresser, British designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (d. 1904) July 10 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter, etcher (d. 1903) July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917) July 2 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904) July