- 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
Election of Interest
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