Editing 1847 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 12]] – German inventors and industrialists [[Werner von Siemens]] and [[Johann Georg Halske]] found [[Siemens & Halske]] to develop the [[electrical telegraph]].
* [[October 19]] – [[Charlotte Brontë]] publishes ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' under the pen name of Currer Bell in England.
* [[October 31]] – [[Theta Delta Chi]] is founded as a social [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]] at [[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]].
* [[October]] – The last [[volcanic eruption]] of [[Mount Guntur]] in [[West Java]] occurs.
* [[November 3]]–[[November 29|29]] – [[Sonderbund War]]: In Switzerland, General [[Guillaume-Henri Dufour]]'s Federal Army defeats the ''Sonderbund'' (an alliance of seven [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Cantons of Switzerland|cantons]]) in a civil war, with a total of only 86 deaths.
* [[November 4]]–[[November 8|8]] – [[James Young Simpson]] discovers the [[anesthetic]] properties of [[chloroform]] and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an [[obstetric]] case in [[Edinburgh]].<ref>First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet, ''Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent'', in Edinburgh, November 12.</ref>
* [[November 10]] – The first brew of [[Carlsberg Group|Carlsberg]] [[beer]] is finished in [[Copenhagen]].
* [[November 17]] – The Battle of Um Swayya Spring takes place near a spring in Qatar, after a Bahraini force under Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Deputy Ruler of Bahrain defeats the Al Binali tribe. The chief of the Al Binali, Isa bin Tureef, is slain in battle with over 70 fatalities from his side.
* [[December 14]] – [[Emily Brontë]] and [[Anne Brontë]] publish ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' and ''[[Agnes Grey]]'', respectively, in a 3-volume set under the pen names of Ellis Bell and Acton Bell in England.
* [[December 20]] – British [[Royal Navy]] steam [[frigate]] {{HMS|Avenger|1845}} is wrecked on the [[Sorelle Rocks]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] with the loss of 246 lives and only eight survivors.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gilly|first=William Octavius Shakespeare|title=Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849|publisher=John W. Parker|year=1850|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDsIAAAAQAAJ}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Emir Abdelkader]] surrenders to the French in Algeria.