Historical Events
- Oct 27 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 6 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, born in Cairo Montenotte, Italy (d. 1910)
- Oct 8 John Hay, American politician and statesman who was a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State (1898-1905), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1905)
- Oct 22 Carl Fuchs, German composer and musician, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1922)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist, dies at 70
- Oct 3 Black Hawk, Sauk leader and warrior (Black Hawk War) who published the 1st US Native American autobiography (Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, Embracing the Traditions of his Nation), dies at 70 or 71
- Oct 4 Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, German composer, dies at 79
- Oct 15 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet (Heath's Book of Beauty), dies at 36
- Oct 19 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch-English baron and diplomat (Dutch ambassador to London), dies at 73
