After Anne's death Charlotte resumed writing as a way of dealing with her grief, and Shirley which deals with the themes of industrial unrest and the role of women in society was published in October 1849.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore ; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, " in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance ", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker.

He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849, at 5: 00 in the morning.

17 October 1849

When the Legislative Assembly met at the beginning of October 1849, Passy proposed an income tax to help balance the finances in France.

* October 28 – Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany ( b. 1849 )

* October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet ( b. 1849 )

* October 4 – Leona Florentino, Filipina poet ( b. 1849 )

* October 2 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia ( d. 1849 )

* October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly ( d. 1849 )

On October 5, 1849, Engels arrived in the Italian port city of Genoa.

Basil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE ( October 6, 1849 – November 27, 1936 ), born Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff, was an arms dealer and financier.

From October 1848 until May 1849, around 300 Bábís ( later rising to 600 ), led by Mullá Muhammad ‘ Alí of Bárfarúsh, surnamed Quddús, and Mullá Husayn-i-Bushru ' i, defended themselves against the attacks of local villagers and members of the shah's army under the command of Prince Mihdí Qulí Mirzá.

* VI – October 1849 ( chapters 16 – 18 );

Charles Albert ( Carlo Alberto Amedeo ; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849 ) was the King of Piedmont-Sardinia from 1831 to 1849.

The canal finally reached Terre Haute in October 1849.

In October 1849, Margaret hired a land surveyor to map out, which was then divided into forty one blocks.

A U. S. post office was established at Hibernia on June 19, 1849, but its name was changed on October 17, 1853 to Magnolia Mills, and on July 30, 1866, it was changed to Green Cove Springs.

Both names refer to a nearby 1, 497 feet long railroad tunnel through Chetoogeta Mountain, officially dedicated on October 31, 1849 by Etowah steel-maker Mark A. Cooper on behalf of the state-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad.

* James Whitcomb Riley, born October 7, 1849.

The town did not incorporate until 1849, and was ransacked on October 13, 1864 by Confederate guerrillas, who burned the jail.

* Olive Branch Lodge No 16 Free and Accepted Masons Instituted October 20, 1849

The first steps towards reorganizing the defeated Irish Volunteers were taken on 27 October 1917 when a convention took place in Dublin.

A Soviet-Latvian sanitary convention was signed on 24 June 1922, for which ratifications were exchanged on 18 October 1923.

A sanitary convention was also concluded between the governments of Poland and Czechoslovakia on 5 September 1925, for which ratifications were exchanged on 22 October 1926.

They were formally chosen at the party's 400-person convention in Washington D. C. on October 5, 1992, although they had been campaigning already.

The convention is slated to reconvene in October 2012 to address these concerns.

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

The Governor of Queensland, Sir Colin Hannah, gave a speech denigrating the Whitlam Government on 15 October, in violation of the convention that state governors remain neutral.

Stanton seemed to agree ; in an address to the National Woman Suffrage Association ( NWSA ) convention in 1870, on the subject of the women's rights movement, she said " The movement in England, as in America, may be dated from the first National Convention, held at Worcester, Mass., October, 1850.

Finally, between 27 October and 6 November, the first conference met in Paris to study the draft convention.

In 1927-28 CITEJA studied and developed the proposed draft convention and developed it into the present package of unification of law and presented it at Warsaw Conference which was approved between 4 and 12 October 1929.

The CDU experienced considerable success gaining support from the time of its creation in Berlin on 26 June 1945 until its first convention on 21 October 1950, at which Chancellor Adenauer was named the first Chairman of the party.

It was also a leader in the women's suffrage movement: The first national convention advocating women's rights was held in Worcester, October 23 – 24, 1850.

She spoke at a convention in October 1854, but no relief came from the headaches.

Stone had previously met Catt at an Iowa state woman's suffrage convention in October, 1889, and had been impressed at her ambition and sense of presence, saying " Mrs. Chapman will be heard from yet in this movement.

Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners.

Hill at a Lord of the Rings convention in Bonn, Germany, October 2004

On October 14, 1967, Lévesque left the Liberal Party after its members refused to discuss the idea of a sovereign Quebec during its convention.

On 17 October, Napoleon's emissary, Ségur, signed a convention with Mack in which the Austrians agreed to surrender on 25 October if no aid came by that date.

In October 2006, Washington Post editor Len Downie, speaking at the Online News Association's annual convention in Washington, D. C., said " Our largest driver of traffic is Matt Drudge.

To impress upon his compatriots his vision, he called a constitutional convention in Durban, in October 1908.

He was aided by the cessation of the industrial crisis as the American Civil War came to an end, by the apparent closing of the Roman question by the convention of September 15, which guaranteed to the papal states the protection of Italy, and finally by the treaty of October 30, 1864, which temporarily put an end to the crisis of the Schleswig-Holstein question.

At an October convention, Getty won a second ballot victory against Minister of Municipal Affairs Julian Koziak and former legislator Ron Ghitter.