Historical Events
- Nov 1 King Willem III of the Netherlands opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
- Nov 1 New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
Symphony No. 1
Nov 4 Johannes Brahms' 1st Symphony in C premieres in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden
Stanley Leaves Nyangwe
Nov 5 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe
- Nov 7 Edward Bouchet is 1st African American to receive a Ph.D from a US college (Yale)
- Nov 7 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennessee College
Rutherford B. Hayes
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)
Slavonic March
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.
Mask of Agamemnon
Nov 30 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) "the Mona Lisa of prehistory"
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 2 Eugeniusz Morawski-Dabrowa, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1948)
- Nov 3 Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, born in Porto Santo, Madeira Islands, Portugal (d. 1940)
- Nov 4 James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (Indian Head (Buffalo) nickel), born in Winona, Minnesota (d. 1953)
- Nov 5 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire), born in Damville, Eure, France (d. 1918)
- Nov 6 Ernie Hayes, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Surrey CCC, Leicestershire CCC), born in London, England (d. 1953)
- Nov 7 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer, born in Bristol (d. 1958)
- Nov 7 Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician (Gov-D-Cal), born in Fillmore, Utah (d. 1962)
- Nov 7 Ted Arnold, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05), born in Withycombe Raleigh, Devon (d. 1942)
- Nov 8 Frank L. Gillespie, American founder of Supreme Life Insurance Company, born in Osceola, Arkansas (d. 1925)
- Nov 12 Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, American MLB baseball outfielder (New York Giants - 1 game, 1905), medical doctor, and subject of "Field of Dreams" film, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1965)
- Nov 17 Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, Belgian politician, (mayor of Brussels, Belgium) (d. 1958)
- Nov 19 Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist (fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1964)
- Nov 23 Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (Atlántida), born in Cádiz, Spain (d. 1946)
- Nov 24 Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (L-shaped floor plan, Carport) who designed Australia's capital Canberra and the NSW towns of Griffith and Leeton, born in Maywood, Illinois (d. 1937)
- Nov 25 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, born in San Anton Palace, Attard, British Malta (d. 1936)
- Nov 26 Bart van der Leck, Dutch painter, and co-founder of the De Stijl movement, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1958)
Willis Carrier (1876-1950)
Nov 26 American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), born in Angola, New York
- Nov 28 Bert Vogler, South African cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 64 wickets, BB 7/94, 2 x 50; Natal, Transvaal; MCC), born in Swartwater, South Africa (d. 1946)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 6 Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal and assistant secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
- Nov 7 Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American Reformed vicar (settled Holland, Michigan), dies at 65
- Nov 8 Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen consort of Spain (1870-73), dies at 29
- Nov 13 Pietro Antonio Coppola, Italian composer, dies at 82
- Nov 28 Karl Earnest von Baer, Estonian-German embryologist (founding father of embryology), dies at 84
