Historical Events
- Oct 7 Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
- Oct 8 "Ke Kumukānāwai a me nā Kānāwai o ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, Honolulu, 1840", the 1st written Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom enacted by King Kamehameha III and Kuhina Nui (Prime Minister) Kekāuluohi
- Oct 8 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
- Oct 14 Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 4 Charles Lenepveu, French composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1910)
- Oct 5 Fran Gerbič, Slovenian composer and tenor, born in Cerknica (d. 1917)
- Oct 5 John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer (Probs in Greek Ethics), born in Bristol, England (d. 1893)
- Oct 9 Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, born in London, England (d. 1905)
- Oct 12 Helena Modjeska [Modrzejewska], Polish Shakespearian actress (Hamlet), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1909)
- Oct 15 Honoré Mercier, Canadian politician and 9th Premier of Quebec (1887-91), born in Saint-Athanase, Lower Canada (d. 1894)
- Oct 17 Yaa Asantewaa, Ghanaian queen of Ashanti Empire, led fight against British colonialism, born in Besease, Ghana (d. 1921) appropriate date
- Oct 30 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1889)
- Oct 30 William Graham Sumner, American sociologist (Folkways), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1910)
- Oct 31 Franz Müller, German tailor and first train murderer (killing Thomas Briggs) (d. 1864)
