- Nov 1 King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
- Nov 1 New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
Music Premiere
Nov 4 Johannes Brahms' 1st Symphony in C premieres in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden
Historic Expedition
Nov 5 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe
Election of Interest
Nov 7 President Rutherford B. Hayes and challenger Samuel J. Tilden claim presidential victory as Tilden (D) wins popular vote but Electoral College votes are disputed with Hayes (R)
Music Premiere
Nov 17 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March makes its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception
- Nov 21 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives
- Nov 23 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
- Nov 25 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Historic Event
Nov 30 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) "the Mona Lisa of prehistory" [1]
