Events in History
Event of Interest
Nov 3 Poet and critic Matthew Arnold begins his series of lectures "On Translating Home" as Oxford Professor of Poetry at Oxford University

Matthew Arnold
Election of Interest
Nov 6 Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United States of America

Abraham Lincoln
Birthdays in History
- Nov 23 Karl Branting, Swedish statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
Weddings in History
- Nov 11 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
Deaths in History
- Nov 8 Charles Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies