6th » 'Scenes of Clerical Life', the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
17th » American Frontier American Old West: On the Sonoita Creek Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan, Arizona Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1856
3rd » Jim McCormick (pitcher) named Jim McCormick, Scottish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1918)
13th » Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1941)
18th » Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929) or Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1929)
22nd » Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th List of presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints known as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
29th » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1921)
Famous Deaths for November 1856
20th » Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)