Historical Events
First Whig Government
Nov 22 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the head of the first Whig government
- Nov 29 November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule beings in Poland begins
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist and chemist, born in Almelo, Netherlands (d. 1911)
- Nov 3 John Esten Cooke, American novelist (The Virginia Comedians) and Confederate States Army, born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1886)
- Nov 8 Oliver Otis Howard, American Major General (Union Army), born in Leeds, Maine (d. 1909)
- Nov 10 Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Cabell County, Virginia (d. 1864)
- Nov 20 Patrick Henry Jones, Irish-American lawyer, Postmaster of New York City, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland (d. 1900)
- Nov 23 Kaspar von Zumbusch, German-Austria sculptor of public statues in Vienna, born in Herzebrock, Westphalia (d. 1915)
- Nov 27 Harrison Millard, American composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 4 Frederic de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37
- Nov 8 Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies (1825-30), dies at 53
- Nov 21 Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian pioneering dramatist (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon), dies of tuberculosis at 42
- Nov 25 Pierre Rode, French composer, dies at 56
- Nov 30 Pius VIII [Francesco Saverio Castiglioni], Italian 253rd Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
