Historical Events
- Nov 2 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
Emigrants Crossing the Plains
Nov 4 First wagon train arrives in California after a five and a half month and 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri [1]
- Nov 13 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis
- Nov 16 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
- Nov 25 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa
- Nov 26 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Danish botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions), born in Mandø, Denmark (d. 1924)
- Nov 4 Carl Tausig, Polish pianist, student and protégé of Liszt, and composer noted for his transcriptions, born in Warsaw (d. 1871)
- Nov 5 Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, Russian composer, born in Kaluga, Russia (d. 1896)
- Nov 6 Armand Fallières, French president (1906-13), born in Mézin, France (d. 1931)
- Nov 6 Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, born in Foster, Rhode Island (d. 1915)
Edward VII (1841-1910)
Nov 9 King of England (1901-10), born in Buckingham Palace, London
John William Strutt (1841-1919)
Nov 12 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), born in Maldon, Essex, England
Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1918)
Nov 20 7th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1896-1911), born in Saint-Lin, Quebec
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Antoine Philippe Vischer, comte de Celles, Belgian-French politician, dies at 61
- Nov 13 Caroline of Baden, Queen of Bavaria, dies at 65
- Nov 14 Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat, dies at 75
- Nov 18 Georg Christoph Grosheim, German composer, dies at 77
- Nov 30 Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
