What Happened In November 1849 In History

Historical Events for November, 1849

• 16th » A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.

Famous Birthdays on November in 1849

• 22nd » Christian Rohlfs, German painter (d. 1938)
• 24th » Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright and author (d. 1924)
• 29th » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (d. 1945)

Famous Deaths for November 1849

• 17th » Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1794)

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