- Nov 1 King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
- Nov 1 New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
- 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
Henry Morton Stanley
Election of Interest
Nov 7 President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claim presidential victory as Tilden (D) wins popular vote but Electoral College votes are disputed with Hayes (R)
Rutherford B. Hayes
Music Premiere
Nov 17 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 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.
Event of Interest
Nov 30 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) "the Mona Lisa of prehistory"
Heinrich Schliemann