Susan B. Anthony Illegally Votes
Nov 5 American women's right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant
Grant Re-elected
Nov 5 Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President
- Nov 7 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later
- Nov 9 The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
- Nov 18 Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting
- Nov 19 E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
- Nov 22 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo" premieres in Prague
- Nov 29 Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River
- Nov 30 First international soccer game, Scotland draws with England (0-0) in Glasgow