November 29–December 3 – Invasion of Isle de France: British forces force the French to surrender Isle de France (Mauritius). December 20 – Manuel Belgrano crosses the Paraná River to Itapúa Department, starting his invasion of Paraguay. December 22 – British ship of the line is wrecked on Texel in the West Frisian Islands with the loss of 500 lives. December 27 – Chartered British East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives, many of them lascar seamen. Date unknown Amadou Lobbo initiates his jihad, in present-day Mali. Ching Shih and Cheung Po Tsai surrender their pirate fleet to the Chinese government. 4,500 chests of opium are sold in China. Births January–June January 3 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer (d. 1897) January 13 – Ernestine Rose, Polish-born feminist (d. 1892) January 29 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893) February 5 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880) February 8 – Eliphas Levi, French writer (d. 1875) March 1 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer, pianist (d. 1849) March 2 – Pope Leo XIII (b. Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (d. 1903) March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish lawyer, poet and artist (d. 1886) March 28 – Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (d. 1877) April 8 – Hégésippe Moreau, French writer and poet (d. 1838) May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874) May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist, literary critic and feminist (d. 1850) May 24 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874) May 31 – Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, 1868 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee (d. 1886) June 8 – Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist (d. 1856) June 9 – Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849) June 14 – Ward Hunt, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1886) July–December July 5 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (d. 1891) July 20 – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1900) July 21 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist, physicist (d. 1878) August 4 – Maurice de Guérin, French poet (d. 1839) August 10 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1861) August 24 – Theodore Parker, American preacher, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist (d. 1860) August 29 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main