of the 385 people on board. November 19 – The University of Warsaw is established. November 30 –December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state. December 12 – The thrones of Sicily and Naples are merged into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, under King Ferdinand I. December 9 –21 – The American Colonization Society is established, to support the emigration of free African Americans to Africa. Date unknown Shaka starts to rule the Zulu Kingdom at about this date. Banjul, capital of the Gambia, is founded as a trading post named Bathurst. René Laennec invents the stethoscope. E. Remington and Sons (the famous firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company) is founded in the United States. Robert Stirling patents his Stirling engine, at this time known as Stirling's air engine. A rail capable of supporting a heavy locomotive is developed. Births January–June January 3 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, American politician, railroad executive (d. 1891) January 30 – Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician, general (d. 1894) March 14 – William Marsh Rice, American university founder (d. 1900) March 21 – Most Rev. Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire, 1863-1864 (d. 1891) March 29 – Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama of Tibet (d. 1837) April 5 – Samuel Freeman Miller, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1890) April 21 – Charlotte Brontë, English novelist, poet (d. 1855) April 22 – Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897) April 25 – Eliza Daniel Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1908) May 9 – Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya, Russian aristocrat (d. 1918) May 15 – Jean-Joseph Farre, French general and statesman (d. 1887) May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868) May 31 – Dimitrie Ghica, 10th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1897) June 14 – Priscilla Cooper Tyler, de facto First Lady of the United States (d. 1889) June 19 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1899) June 30 – Richard Lindon, English inventor of the rugby ball (d. 1887) July–December July 14 – Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat, author (d. 1882) July 21 – Paul Reuter, German entrepreneur (d. 1899) July 23 – Charlotte Cushman, American actress (d. 1876) July 31 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870) August 4 – William Julian Albert, U.S. Congressman from