- Nov 2 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
Emigrants Crossing the Plains
Nov 4 First wagon train arrives in California after a five and a half month and 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri [1]
- Nov 13 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis
- Nov 16 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
- Nov 25 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa
- Nov 26 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
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