Historical Events
- Nov 1 Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
- Nov 13 Peter Burnett elected first governor of California
- Nov 15 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
- Nov 16 Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor
Schubert's Symphony No. 4
Nov 19 Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 4, "The Tragic", premieres in Leipzig, more than 20 years after the composer's death
- Nov 21 Friedrich Hebbel's play "Der Rubin" premieres in Vienna
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 William Merritt Chase, American impressionist painter, and educator (Chase School, now known as the Parsons School of Design), born in Williamsburg, Indiana (d. 1916)
- Nov 5 Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, writer and politician, born in Salvador, Bahia, Empire of Brazil (d. 1923)
- Nov 8 Edward Julius Biedermann, American organist and composer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1933)
- Nov 22 Christian Rohlfs, German painter and artist, born in Groß Niendorf, Kreis Segeberg, Prussia (d. 1938)
- Nov 22 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German general and military historian (Germany & the Next War), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1930)
- Nov 22 Fritz Mauthner, Austro-Hungarian novelist and critic, born in Hořice, Czech Republic (d. 1923)
- Nov 24 Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-American playwright and children's author ("The Secret Garden"; "Little Lord Fauntleroy"), born in Manchester (d. 1924)
- Nov 29 John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, physicist and inventor (vaccum diode- 1st electronic rectifier of radio waves), born in Lancaster, England (d. 1945)
