| 124651 | November 1 | Event | 1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England. |
| 124652 | November 1 | Event | 1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France. |
| 124653 | November 1 | Event | 1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks. |
| 124654 | November 1 | Event | 1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists". |
| 124655 | November 1 | Event | 1503 – Pope Julius II is elected. |
| 124656 | November 1 | Event | 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. |
| 124657 | November 1 | Event | 1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voy |
| 124658 | November 1 | Event | 1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 124659 | November 1 | Event | 1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast. |
| 124660 | November 1 | Event | 1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. |
| 124661 | November 1 | Event | 1611 – William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. |
| 124662 | November 1 | Event | 1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitay-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky |
| 124663 | November 1 | Event | 1683 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties. |
| 124664 | November 1 | Event | 1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution. |
| 124665 | November 1 | Event | 1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people. |
| 124666 | November 1 | Event | 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. |
| 124667 | November 1 | Event | 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster. |
| 124668 | November 1 | Event | 1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House). |
| 124669 | November 1 | Event | 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition. |
| 124670 | November 1 | Event | 1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars. |
| 124671 | November 1 | Event | 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens. |
| 124672 | November 1 | Event | 1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (31 km) in good conditions. |
| 124673 | November 1 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott. |
| 124674 | November 1 | Event | 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. |
| 124675 | November 1 | Event | 1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved. |
| 124676 | November 1 | Event | 1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. |
| 124677 | November 1 | Event | 1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students. |
| 124678 | November 1 | Event | 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. |
| 124679 | November 1 | Event | 1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show. |
| 124680 | November 1 | Event | 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. |