Historical Events
- Nov 26 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
The Barber of Seville
Nov 29 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) become 1st opera performed in Italian in US, staged at New York City's Park Theater
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Joseph B. Palmer, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Rutherford County, Tennessee (d. 1890)
- Nov 5 Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Hungarian-American diplomat, mining engineer, and Major General (Union Army), born in Szeged, Hungary (d. 1912)
- Nov 9 A. P. Hill, Confederate general, born in Culpeper, Virginia (d. 1865)
- Nov 14 August Reissmann, Prussian composer, born in Frankenstein, Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland) (d. 1903)
- Nov 25 Edward Augustus Wild, American homeopathic doctor and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1891)
- Nov 29 Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist, born in Paris, France (d. 1893)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, Portuguese composer, dies at 49
- Nov 14 Jean Paul, writer, dies at 62
- Nov 19 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer, dies of respiratory arrest at 34
- Nov 22 Anne Bailey (née Herris), British-American revolutionary war scout and messenger, and pioneer woman, known as 'Mad Anne", dies at 85
