(although they will not be allowed to take degrees). October 11 The Red River Rebellion breaks out against British forces in Canada. Gamma Sigma becomes the first high school fraternity in North America at Brockport Normal School, Brockport, New York. October 16 – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women (predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge), is founded at Hitchin, by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. November 4 – The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer. November 6 – The first game of American football between two American colleges is played. Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6–4, in a forerunner to American football and College football. November 17 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony. November 19 – The Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada, under its letters patent, back to the British Crown. November 23 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched (it is one of the last clippers built, and the only one to survive in the United Kingdom). December – Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace is published in complete book form, in Russia. December 7 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery, in Gallatin, Missouri. December 8 – The First Vatican Council opens in Rome. December 10 Women's suffrage: The Wyoming territorial legislature gives women the right to vote, the first such law in the world. The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia. December 31 – Paraguayan War: Triple Alliance forces take Asunción. Date unknown The investment bank Goldman Sachs is founded in New York. The capital of the Isle of Man moves from Castletown to Douglas. Arabella Mansfield became the first woman in the United States awarded a license to practice law, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. James Gordon Bennett Jr. of the New York Herald asks Henry Morton Stanley to find Dr. David Livingstone. The Co-operative Central Board (later Co-operatives UK) is founded in Manchester, England. Friedrich Miescher purifies nuclein, which was then identified as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts is founded in Great Britain. French missionary and naturalist Père Armand David receives the skin of a giant panda from a