Historical Events
- Oct 7 Miramichi Fire - forest fire disaster in New Brunswick destroys Douglastown and Newcastle, killing 200 to 500 people
Don Sanche
Oct 17 1st opera by Franz Liszt, "Don Sanche" premieres in Paris
- Oct 26 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opens
Famous Birthdays
Paul Kruger (1825-1904)
Oct 10 3rd President of South African Republic (1883-1900) and face of Boer resistance during the Second Boer War, born in Steynsburg, Cape Colony
- Oct 11 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss writer, born in Zürich (d. 1898)
- Oct 11 Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Paris, Tennessee (d. 1877)
- Oct 15 Marie of Prussia, Queen consort of Bavaria (1848-64), born in Berlin City Palace, Prussia (d. 1889)
- Oct 16 Thomas Turpin Crittenden, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Huntsville, Alabama (d. 1905)
- Oct 25 Johann Baptist Strauss Jr., Austrian composer (Waltz King), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1899)
- Oct 31 Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal, born in Bayonne, France (d. 1892)
