- Nov 9 China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
- Nov 12 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates
Event of Interest
Nov 22 Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France
Event of Interest
Nov 29 General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts
- Nov 30 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
- Nov 30 The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route
- Dec 1 Exiled South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser
- Dec 1 Portifiro Diaz is inaugurated for his 6th consecutive term as President of Mexico
- Dec 2 Exiled South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger arrives in Germany, though the Kaiser refuses to meet him
- Dec 7 Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body radiation.
- Dec 9 President Paul Kruger of South Africa's Transvaal & Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands have a triumphant procession
- Dec 13 Battle of Nooitgedacht: Boer Generals De La Reyand Smuts defeat a British brigade under the command of Major General R. Clements
- Dec 14 Birth of Quantum Physics: German Physicist Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law
- Dec 14 France and Italy sign a secret agreement by which Italy recognizes France's right to exploit Morocco in return for France's conceding her the same right in Tripoli
- Dec 16 A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes
- Dec 16 Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
- Dec 17 1st prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy.
- Dec 17 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
- Dec 18 The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
- Dec 19 General Horatio Kitchener offers protections to all Boers who will surrender and asks the Dutch community of Pretoria to convey this offer, leaders in the field refuse to surrender
- Dec 20 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
Theater Premiere
Dec 21 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Michael Kramer" premieres in Berlin
- Dec 23 As American forces defeat Filipino insurgents and impose civil authority, some Filipinos form a Federal Party with a platform recognizing US sovereignty
- Dec 24 Foreign powers present the Chinese Empress with their list of 'irrevocable conditions' before their nations will withdraw troops from China
- Dec 24 Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
- Dec 24 The French Chamber of Deputies and Senate pass a bill calling for an end to agitation or prosecutions against those involved in the Dreyfus affair, which has divided France since 1894
- Dec 25 Arthur Schnitzler's novel "Leutnant Gustl" ("None But The Brave") banned in Germany due to its unflattering portrait of military protocol
- Dec 27 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita, Kansas)
- Dec 29 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia