Editing 1829 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] – [[South African College]] is inaugurated in [[Cape Town]].
* [[October 14]] – [[Robert Stephenson|Stephenson]]'s ''[[Stephenson's Rocket|Rocket]]'' wins the [[Rainhill trials]] to determine the practicality of steam locomotives to operate the [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]] in England.
* [[October 16]] – The first modern hotel in the United States, [[Tremont House (Boston)]], opens.
* [[October 17]] – [[Kaspar Hauser]] is found wounded.
* [[November 5]]
** [[Technical University of Denmark]] (DTU) opens.
** The [[Chalmers University of Technology]] is founded in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden.
* [[November 30]] – The original [[Welland Canal]] opens for a trial run, with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie, Upper Canada.
* [[December 4]] – In India, [[Lord William Bentinck]], British [[Governor of Bengal|Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William]] in Bengal, pushes through a regulation declaring that all who abet [[Sati (practice)|sati]] (suttee) (the [[self-immolation]] of a widow on her husband's funeral [[pyre]]) in [[Company rule in India|parts of British India]] are guilty of [[culpable homicide]].<ref>"Suttees, or the Burning of Widows", in ''The World's Progress: A Dictionary of Dates'', ed. by George P. Putnam and F. B. Perkins (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878) p604.</ref> This follows long campaigning by Bengali reformer [[Ram Mohan Roy]].