- Nov 1 Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
- Nov 6 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe, on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels
- Nov 6 Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
- Nov 11 Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
- Nov 11 Thomas William Robertson's play "Society" premieres in London
- Nov 11 Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- Nov 13 US issues 1st gold certificates
Celebrated Jumping Frog
Nov 18 Mark Twain publishes the short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in The New York Saturday Press
- Nov 21 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
Alice in Wonderland
Nov 26 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America
- Nov 26 Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile
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