- Nov 6 1st Hawaiian fire engine
- Nov 6 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use
Tennyson Poet Laureate
Nov 19 Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
- Nov 29 The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, taking over the leadership of German Confederation