Historical Events
- Nov 9 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- Nov 11 Alvan Clark patents telescope
- Nov 13 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands & Orange"
- Nov 13 Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
- Nov 13 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington
Moby-Dick
Nov 14 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US
- Nov 22 Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris)
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 5 Charles Dupuy, 3 times Prime Minister of France, born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France (d. 1923)
- Nov 6 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones and 1st editor of Wall St Journal), born in Sterling, Connecticut (d. 1902)
- Nov 7 Chris von der Ahe, German entrepreneur and owner of St. Louis Brown Stockings, born in Hille, Germany (d. 1913)
- Nov 20 Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy by marriage to Umberto I (1878-1900), born in Palazzo Chiablese, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia (d. 1926)
- Nov 21 Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Belgian philosopher and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium (d. 1926)
