Historical Events
Congress of Vienna
Nov 1 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 6 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician and instrument inventor (saxophone, saxtromba, saxtuba), born in Dinant, Belgium (d. 1894)
- Nov 8 Girolamo de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku), born in Macchia Albanese, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1903)
- Nov 13 Joseph Hooker, American Major General (Union Army), born in Hadley, Massachusetts (d. 1879)
- Nov 14 Michael Kelly Lawler, Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in County Kildare, Ireland (d. 1882)
- Nov 15 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Franklin County, Indiana (d. 1862)
- Nov 17 Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1885)
- Nov 22 Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician and lawyer (3rd Attorney General of California), born in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York (d. 1893)
- Nov 25 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), born in Heilbronn, Württemberg (d. 1878)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
- Nov 18 Aleijadinho ‘the Cripple’ [Antônio Francisco Lisboa], Brazilian architect and sculptor (São Francisco de Assis), dies at 76
- Nov 18 William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
- Nov 23 Elbridge Gerry, American politician signer of Declaration of Independence, 5th Vice-President of the US (under James Madison, 1813-14), and namesake of "gerrymander", dies at 70
