Historical Events
- Nov 14 First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets
Mendelssohn's Reformation
Nov 15 Felix Mendelssohn's "Symphony No. 5 (Reformation)" premieres
- Nov 23 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
- Nov 24 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional in and unenforceable in South Carolina, precipitating the Nullification Crisis which presaged the American Civil War
- Nov 26 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, Danish composer, born in Roskilde, Denmark (d. 1909)
- Nov 5 William W. Averell, American Major General (Union Army), born in Cameron, New York (d. 1900)
- Nov 7 Andrew Dickson White, American historian and educator, 1st President of Cornell University, born in Homer, New York (d. 1918)
- Nov 9 Émile Gaboriau, French writer (father of the French detective novels), born in Saujon, France (d. 1873)
- Nov 11 Paolo Giorza, Italian-Australian composer, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1914)
- Nov 18 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer and mineralogist (Vega Expedition), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1901)
- Nov 22 George Henry Chapman, American newspaper editor, lawyer, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Holland, Massachusetts (d. 1882)
- Nov 26 Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and women's rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War), born in Oswego, New York (d. 1919)
- Nov 26 Rudolph Koenig, German physicist, born in Königsberg, Prussia (d. 1901)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Nov 29 American author (Little Women), born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), Pennsylvania
Famous Deaths
- Nov 3 Pietro Generali, Italian composer, dies at 59
- Nov 14 Charles Carroll, Wealthy Maryland planter who was the last signer of the Declaration of Independence to pass away, dies at 95
- Nov 14 Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist and philologist (Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language), dies of tuberculosis at 44
- Nov 15 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
