Oct 24   Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70   

Oct 28   Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57.   

Oct 31   Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Revolt of Mother).   

Nov 02   Franklin Pierce elected as president of US   

Nov 03   Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912).   

Nov 04   Count Camillo Benso di Cavour is recorded as becoming the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.   

Nov 05   The American Society of Civil Engineers is organized   

Nov 07   Bohdan Borkowski, composer   

Nov 12   Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22   

Nov 18   Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60   

Nov 18   State funeral of duke of Wellington (London)   

Nov 20   Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks and Faces," premieres in London.   

Nov 21   Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College.   

Nov 21   Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer.   

Nov 22   August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69.   

Nov 22   Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist.   

Nov 23   Just past midnight, a sharp jolt leads to Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)   

Nov 25   Johan N Salvator, [Johann Orth], archduke of Austria   

Nov 29   Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer   

Dec 01   Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands.   

Dec 02   2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon is recorded as becoming emperor   

Dec 05   Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer.   

Dec 08   Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau.   

Dec 15   Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903).   

Dec 16   Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59   

Dec 16   The Evening Star newspaper begins publication in Washington, DC.   

Dec 17   1st Hawaiian cavalry organized.   

Dec 17   The inaugural Hawaiian cavalry organized.   

Dec 18   Gaetano Coronaro, composer.   

Dec 19   A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907)   

Dec 23   1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco   

Dec 23   inaugural Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco.   

Dec 26   New Brunswick-built ship Marco Polo arrives backin Liverpool England from Melbourne, Australia in 140 days, a trip that sually took 240 days; declared the quickest ship in the world; 1883 wrecked when grounded in a gale off Cavendish, PEI   

Dec 29   Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants.   

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Jan 01   Eugène-anatole demarçay: French chemist   

Jan 08   James milton carroll: American pastor and author   

Jan 11   Konstantin fehrenbach: German chancellor (1920-21)   

Jan 12   Joseph j c joffre: French fieldmarshal (indo china, marne)   

Jan 26   Frederick corder: Composer   

Jan 26   Pierre brazza: Explorer/colonial administrator (french africa)   

Jan 29   Frederick hymen cowen: Composer   

Jan 29   Ion luca caragiale: Romanian actor/playwright (o noapte furtunoasa)   

Jan 06   Louis braille: French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)   

Jan 22   George rodwell: Composer,    

Jan 25   Fabian gottlieb von bellingshausen: Russian explorer (b. 1778)   

Feb 02   Francois mp liberman: French founder (congr of h heart),   

Feb 17   Micha joseph levenson: Hebrew poet,   

Feb 25   Thomas moore: Writer (utopia),    

Feb 27   Joseph drechsler: Composer,    

Feb 29   John landseer: Printer/engraver (royal academy),