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=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – The [[Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway]] opens in Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|author=Awdry, Christopher|year=1990|title=Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies|publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd|location=Wellingborough|isbn=1-85260-049-7}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] – The first train operates over the [[Granite Railway]] in [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia| url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/241709/Granite-Railway| title=Granite Railway| encyclopedia=Britannica Online Encyclopedia| access-date=2008-05-19}}</ref><ref name=Elks>{{cite web| url=http://catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnegr1.Html| title=The First Railroad in America| publisher=Granite City B.P.O.E. - Quincy Lodge No. 943| work=Catskill Archive| year=1924| access-date=2008-05-19}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] – The [[Euronext Paris|Paris Stock Exchange]] opens at the [[Paris Bourse|''Palais de la Bourse'']].<ref>Jacques Sirat, ''Braquenié: French Textiles and Interiors Since 1823'' (Antique Collectors Club Limited, 1998) p16</ref><ref>"The Bourse", in ''Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine'' (July 1858) p42</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Benjamin W. Edwards]] rides into Mexican-controlled [[Nacogdoches, Texas]], and declares himself ruler of the [[Republic of Fredonia]].
* [[December 21]] – American settlers in [[Mexican Texas]] begin the [[Fredonian Rebellion]], making the first attempt to secede from Mexico. The Republic of Fredoniawill survive for less than six weeks.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bates|first=W.B.|title=A Sketch History of Nacogdoches|journal=Southwestern Historical Quarterly|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101162/m1/519/|access-date=November 20, 2013|volume=59|issue=4|date=April 1956|page=494}}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** The [[Eggnog Riot]] breaks out at the [[United States Military Academy]] in [[West Point, New York]] during the early morning hours.
** Major [[Edmund Lockyer]] arrives at [[King George Sound]] to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near [[Albany, Western Australia|Albany]].