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 Nov 21 Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin" premieres in Vienna 1848 Historical Events by Year 1850