Historical Events
- Nov 1 Classes begin at Boston Female Medical College, 1st US female medical college
WHSmith: a Retail Giant Born From a Widow's Might
Nov 1 WHSmith opens its 1st railway bookstall, at Euston Station in London, England
- Nov 3 Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
Zachery Taylor
Nov 7 General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
- Nov 9 Post office at Clay & Pike opens, 1st in San Francisco
- Nov 9 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
- Nov 21 Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto" premieres in Paris
- Nov 21 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
- Nov 23 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 6 Richard Jefferies, English naturalist and essayist, born in Coate, Swindon, England (d. 1887)
- Nov 8 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (Begriffsschrift), born in Wismar, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Confederation (d. 1925)
- Nov 12 Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
- Nov 13 Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1889-1922), born in Paris (d. 1922)
- Nov 20 James Murray Spangler, American inventor of portable vacuum cleaner (Hoover), born in Pennsylvania (d. 1915) [1]
- Nov 24 Lilli Lehmann, German opera singer (Tristan und Isolde), born in Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1929)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 15 Pellegrino Rossi, Italian economist and politician assassinated at 61
- Nov 17 Joseph Bernard Cannaert "Olim", Flemish lawyer, dies at 80
- Nov 23 Alfred Julius Becher, Austrian journalist and composer, dies at 45
- Nov 23 John Barrow, 1st Baronet, English statesman and founder of the Royal Geographical Society, dies at 84
William Lamb (1779-1848)
Nov 24 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Whig: 1834, 1835-41), dies at 69
