| 134731 | November 28 | Event | 1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag. |
| 134732 | November 28 | Event | 1470 – Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa. |
| 134733 | November 28 | Event | 1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European ships to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacifi |
| 134734 | November 28 | Event | 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. |
| 134735 | November 28 | Event | 1627 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa. |
| 134736 | November 28 | Event | 1660 – At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. |
| 134737 | November 28 | Event | 1666 – At least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green. |
| 134738 | November 28 | Event | 1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed. |
| 134739 | November 28 | Event | 1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. |
| 134740 | November 28 | Event | 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. |
| 134741 | November 28 | Event | 1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia. |
| 134742 | November 28 | Event | 1828 – Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula. |
| 134743 | November 28 | Event | 1843 – Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. |
| 134744 | November 28 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates. |
| 134745 | November 28 | Event | 1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria. |
| 134746 | November 28 | Event | 1893 – New Zealand becomes the first country in which women vote in a national election. |
| 134747 | November 28 | Event | 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours. |
| 134748 | November 28 | Event | 1899 – The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties. |
| 134749 | November 28 | Event | 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland. |
| 134750 | November 28 | Event | 1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. |
| 134751 | November 28 | Event | 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire. |
| 134752 | November 28 | Event | 1910 – The Liberal Party, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, wins the second Greek general election of the year. |
| 134753 | November 28 | Event | 1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. |
| 134754 | November 28 | Event | 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. |
| 134755 | November 28 | Event | 1917 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia. |
| 134756 | November 28 | Event | 1918 – Bukovina votes for union with the Kingdom of Romania. |
| 134757 | November 28 | Event | 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.) |
| 134758 | November 28 | Event | 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen. |
| 134759 | November 28 | Event | 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance. |
| 134760 | November 28 | Event | 1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people. |