Historical Events
- Oct 2 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
- Oct 4 Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire starting the Crimean War after various disagreements including Russian occupation of the Ottoman controlled Danubian Principalities
- Oct 6 4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Stephán Stephansson, Icelandic poet who lived in Canada, born in Skagafjörður, Iceland (d. 1927) [1]
- Oct 13 Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton), British-American artists' model, stage actress (His Neighbor's Wife), theatrical producer, thoroughbred owner, and socialite, born in St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands (d. 1929)
- Oct 13 Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress and wife of Piet Vink Senior (d. 1949)
- Oct 14 Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer, born in Șipotele Sucevei, Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire (d. 1883)
- Oct 17 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
- Oct 29 Josephine Beall Bruce, African-American activist (NACW) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1923)
Famous Weddings
Benjamin Harrison
Oct 20 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 2 François Arago, French astronomer, physicist (chromosome) and politician, dies at 67
- Oct 3 George Onslow, British-French composer, chiefly of chamber music, dies at 69
- Oct 29 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, French pianist, music teacher, and composer, dies at 68
- Oct 29 William Richard Bexfield, English composer, dies at 29
- Oct 30 Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Triple Oratorio:, Putifar-Giuseppe-Giacobbe), dies at 66
