| 131762 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) |
| 131763 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | Flag Day (Brazil) |
| 131764 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize) |
| 131765 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | International Men's Day (Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States) |
| 131766 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | Monaco National Day (Monaco) |
| 131767 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | Women’s Entrepreneurship Day |
| 131768 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | World Toilet Day |
| 131769 | November 20 | Event | 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor. |
| 131770 | November 20 | Event | 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels. |
| 131771 | November 20 | Event | 1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 131772 | November 20 | Event | 1407 – A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed upon under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy. |
| 131773 | November 20 | Event | 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho. |
| 131774 | November 20 | Event | 1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear. |
| 131775 | November 20 | Event | 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey. |
| 131776 | November 20 | Event | 1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights. |
| 131777 | November 20 | Event | 1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio premieres in Vienna. |
| 131778 | November 20 | Event | 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.) |
| 131779 | November 20 | Event | 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado. |
| 131780 | November 20 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government. |
| 131781 | November 20 | Event | 1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution. |
| 131782 | November 20 | Event | 1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back. |
| 131783 | November 20 | Event | 1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic. |
| 131784 | November 20 | Event | 1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad. |
| 131785 | November 20 | Event | 1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. |
| 131786 | November 20 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. |
| 131787 | November 20 | Event | 1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg. |
| 131788 | November 20 | Event | 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 131789 | November 20 | Event | 1952 – Slánský trials: A series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia. |
| 131790 | November 20 | Event | 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. |
| 131761 | November 19 | Holiday and observance | Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belarus) |