- Nov 6 1st US college football game, players used their hands or feet, 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 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
- Nov 24 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)