arrives in Guangzhou (Canton). September 27 – Napoleon purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris. October–December October 9 – Prussian Reform Movement: Serfdom is abolished by the October edict. October 13 – The Geological Society of London is founded. October 30 – El Escorial Conspiracy: Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias is arrested for conspiring against his father Charles IV of Spain. November 24 – Battle of Abrantes, Portugal: The French under Jean-Andoche Junot take the town. November 29 – Portuguese Queen Maria I and the Court embark at Lisbon, bound for Brazil. Rio de Janeiro becomes the Portuguese capital. December 17 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree which confirms the Continental System (i.e. no European country is to trade with the United Kingdom). December 22 – The United States Congress passes the Embargo Act. December 27 – Thomas Parr, Resident of British Bencoolen, is decapitated by a mob. Date unknown The municipality of Mogpog in Marinduque, Philippines, is founded. The world's oldest international football stadium, the Racecourse Ground, opens in Wrexham, Wales, although it will not host football games until 1872. Births January–June January 13 – Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, American general, railroad executive (d. 1883) January 19 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870) January 28 – Robert McClure, Irish-born Arctic explorer (d. 1873) February 10 – Lajos Batthyány, 1st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1849) February 27 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882) March 1 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader (d. 1898) March 14 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876) April 2 – William F. Packer, American politician (d. 1870) April 3 – Jane Digby, English adventurer (d. 1881) April 20 – John Milton, Governor of Florida (d. 1865) April 26 – Charles Auguste Frossard, French general (d. 1875) May 14 – Charlotta Djurström, Swedish actress and theater manager (d. 1877) May 28 – Louis Agassiz, French zoologist, geologist (d. 1873) June 6 – Adrien-François Servais, Belgian musician (d. 1866) June 16 – John Westcott, American surveyor and politician (d. 1888) July–December July 4 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882) August 8 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (d. 1892) August 11 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886) August 15 – Jules Grévy, 4th President of France (d. 1891) August 18 – Charles Francis Adams Sr., American historical editor,