Events March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.\n* May 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians, marries Charlotte Augusta, but she dies the next year.\n* July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain\n* July 17 - The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.\n* November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election\n* December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state. Tsultrim Gyatso becomes the 10th Dalai Lama.\n* The British found Banjul, The Gambia.\n* A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River.\n* The Battle of Seven Oaks is fought in the Red River Colony of Canada.\n* In France, René Laennec (1781-1826) invents the stethoscope.\n* First known cultivation of the cranberry.\n* Francis Ellis first describes the Dravidian languages.\n* The Second Bank of the United States is founded.\n* E. Remington and Sons is founded.\n* Buffalo, New York is incorporated.\n* African Methodist Episcopal Church is founded in Philadelphia.\n* Beau Brummell flees England to escape gambling debts.\n* The "Year Without A Summer", caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.\n* Large-scale slave insurrection in Barbados - one white and 176 slaves killed and 214 executed afterwards\n* Divorce annulled in France Births\n*April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, British novelist\n*April 22 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general\n*May 24 - Emanuel Leutze, US painter\n*July 4 - Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat, author (+ 1882)\n*July 31 - George Henry Thomas, American general (+ 1870)\n*October 2 - Ángel de Iturbide y Huarte (+ 1872)\n*November 17 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer\n*December 13 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist\n*William Marsh Rice, philanthropic founder of Rice University\n*Therese, daughter of Carl Friedrich Gauss\n*Charles John Vaughan, English scholar Deaths\n*February 22 - Adam Ferguson Scottish philosopher, historian\n*March 20 - Queen Maria I of Portugal\n*July 5 - Dorothy Jordan, English mistress\n*December 15 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
