Events in History
- Oct 27 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated
Birthdays in History
- Oct 6 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, born in Cairo Montenotte, Italy (d. 1910)
- Oct 8 John Milton Hay, American politician (Union), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1905)
- Oct 27 John Davis Long, American politician (32nd Governor of Massachusetts 1880-1915), born in Buckfield, Maine (d. 1915)
- Oct 31 Luís I, King of Portugal (1861-89), born in Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1889)
Deaths in History
- Oct 1 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist, dies at 70
- Oct 3 Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
- Oct 15 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet (Heath's Book of Beauty), dies at 36
- Oct 19 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch-English baron and diplomat (Dutch ambassador to London), dies at 73
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