Historical Events
- Oct 7 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Hormuzd Rassam, Assyrian archaeologist (discovered Epic of Gilgamesh, world's oldest piece of literature), born in Mosul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1910)
- Oct 7 William Brimage Bate, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) and 23rd Governor of Tennessee (1882-86), born in Castalian Springs, Tennessee (d. 1905)
- Oct 8 Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Warren County, North Carolina (d. 1904)
- Oct 13 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1895)
- Oct 13 Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Stafford, New York (d. 1868)
- Oct 16 Piotr Studzinski, Polish conductor and composer, born in the Free City of Cracow (d. 1869)
- Oct 22 Guglielmo Quarenghi, Italian composer and cellist, born in Casalmaggiore, Italy (d. 1882)
- Oct 31 Hugh Boyle Ewing, American diplomat, author, attorney, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1905)
Famous Weddings
Thomas Carlyle
Oct 17 Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 3 Jens Baggesen, Danish writer and linguist (Labyrinth), dies at 62
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826)
Oct 25 French physician and father of modern psychiatry who developed a more humane approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, dies at 81
