- Nov 1 Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
- Nov 3 Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
- Nov 6 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
- Nov 15 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
- Nov 17 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race, racing 13K Paris to Rouen
- Nov 17 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas
- Nov 23 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving
- Nov 24 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)