Timeline November 1847

Events in November 1847 7

• 1809 – 1847 Felix Mendelssohn Romantic composer & conductor German Romantic composer who rediscovered Bach, wrote the famous Wedding March and composed the Violin Concerto and Italian Symphony.
• 1847 Joins the Communist League Commissioned to write a party manifesto Marx and Engels joined the Communist League, an international workers' organization, in 1847. At its Second Congress in London that November, the League commissioned the two men to draft a comprehensive statement of its aims and beliefs, which would become "The Communist Manifesto," published the following year.
• 1847 Sonderbund War Last Swiss Civil War A brief conflict between Catholic and Protestant cantons that led to the creation of the modern federal state.
• 1847 Chloroform anaesthesia demonstrated by James Young Simpson Edinburgh obstetrician tests chloroform on himself and colleagues On 4 November James Young Simpson and his assistants inhaled chloroform at his Edinburgh home and found its anaesthetic effect. He soon introduced it in childbirth. Its use spread rapidly, aided later by Queen Victoria's acceptance of it.
• 1847 First use of ether anaesthesia in Britain Robert Liston operates under ether in London Following the first public demonstration in Boston in 1846, surgeons in Britain adopted ether anaesthesia in December 1846 and early 1847. In January 1847 James Young Simpson in Edinburgh used ether in obstetrics. In November he demonstrated chloroform as a more convenient anaesthetic.
• 1847 Sonderbund dissolved and Swiss federal state prepared Federal victory leads to the 1848 constitution After the Federal Diet's victory in the Sonderbund war, Switzerland moved toward a new federal constitution. The conflict ended with the surrender of Lucerne in late November.
• 1847 – 1912 Bram Stoker Irish novelist Stoker wrote Dracula, defining modern vampire fiction and Gothic horror literature.