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=== October–December ===
* [[October 21]] – [[Jacques Offenbach]]'s [[operetta]] ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld]]'', featuring music associated with the [[can-can]], is first performed in Paris.
* [[October 28]] – [[Macy's]] [[department store]], founded by [[Rowland Hussey Macy|R. H. Macy]], opens for business in New York City.
* [[November 12]] – [[Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein]], succeeds to the throne aged 18; he will rule until his death in [[1929]], the second-longest in European royal history and the longest precisely documented tenure of any monarch without a regent since antiquity.
* [[November 16]] – The 2,400,000th day of the [[epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] of the [[Julian day]] is reached.
* [[November 17]] 
** The city of [[Denver, Colorado]], is founded.
**  Modified [[Julian day|Julian Day]] zero starts on this date.
* [[December 7]] — Mexican Conservative interim president [[Félix María Zuloaga]] proclaims the [[Plan of Tacubaya]] to abolish the [[Reform War|Reform Laws]], setting off a three-year civil war (1857–1860).<ref name="robles">{{cite web|title=El único y olvidado presidente de Guanajuato|url=https://www.ruletarusa.mx/lab/el-presidente-de-mexico-que-guanajuato-olvido/|website=Ruleta Rusia|date=January 12, 2017|language=es|trans-title=The only and forgotten president of Guanajuato|access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref>
* [[December 24]] — [[Manuel Robles Pezuela]] (1817–1862) becomes Conservative president of Mexico.<ref name="robles"></ref>
* [[December 29]] – The Northern Railway Company is established in Madrid, Spain, with a purpose to construct the Northern Railway.
* [[December 30]] – [[Paraguay expedition]]: Seventeen U.S. Navy warships, under the command of [[William Shubrick]], depart from Uruguay on a mission to demand concessions from [[Paraguay]], and to go to war if necessary.