| 30 November 1016 | England [political events] | On the death of King Edmund Ironside, Cnut, king of Denmark, is accepted as sole king of England. |
| 30 November 1031 | Spain, Umayyad Caliphate [political events] | The caliphate of Córdoba comes to an end with the deposing of Hisham III, the last of the Umayyad dynasty. Dozens of independent Moorish and Arab kingdoms arise in Andalusia. |
| 30 November 1314 | France [administration] | Louis X succeeds his father, King Philip IV the Fair of France, to the French throne. |
| 30 November 1363 | Sweden, Germany [wars] | Albert II is elected king of Sweden when his father Albert, Duke of Mecklenburg, Germany, leads a rebellion which deposes King Magnus II of Sweden. |
| 30 November 1369 | Denmark, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Norway, Sweden [treaties] | Under the Treaty of Stralsund, King Waldemar IV of Denmark makes peace on terms favourable to the Hanse and its allies, who have conquered Scania, Sweden. |
| 30 November 1406 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Angelo Correr is elected Pope Gregory XII in Rome. |
| 30 November 1433 | Swiss Confederation, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [Christianity] | The delegates of the General Council of Basel in Prague, Bohemia, make terms for a settlement with the Bohemian Hussite moderates – the ‘Compacts of Prague’ – which grant some degree of freedom to the Moravians and Bohemians if they swear loyalty to the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. However the extremist antipapal Taborites do not agree to this. |
| 30 November 1667 | Ireland [births and deaths] | Jonathan Swift, Irish author and satirist, author of Gulliver's Travels, born in Dublin, Ireland (–1745). |
| 30 November 1700 | Papal States, Italy [Catholicism] | The Italian churchman Giovanni Francesco Albani is elected Pope Clement XI, following the death of Pope Innocent XII. |
| 30 November 1710 | Ottoman Empire, Russia, Sweden [Ottoman–Russian Wars (1686–1739)] | The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia at the instigation of King Charles XII of Sweden, Sultan Ahmed III's guest and new-found ally, who has recently been defeated by Tsar Peter I the Great at the battle of Poltava. |
| 30 November 1835 | USA [births and deaths] | Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), US author who creates the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, born in Florida, Missouri (–1910). |
| 30 November 1874 | England [births and deaths] | Winston Churchill, British prime minister 1940–45 and 1951–55, who leads Britain through World War II, born at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England (–1965). |
| 30 November 1878 | UK [television] | English chemist and physicist William Crookes describes an early form of the cathode-ray tube, now known as Crooke's tube, to the Royal Society. It is a forerunner of the television tube. |
| 30 November 1900 | Ireland, France [births and deaths] | Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and dramatist, dies in Paris, France (44). |
| 30 November 1909 | United Kingdom [law and government] | The hereditary British House of Lords rejects the ‘People's Budget’ by 350 votes to 75, which was passed by the elected House of Commons. The issue generates a major constitutional crisis in Britain. |
| 30 November 1918 | Iceland, Denmark [political events] | Iceland becomes a sovereign state, independent of Denmark but under the same monarch. |
| 30 November 1936 | UK [natural disasters] | The Crystal Palace at Sydenham, London, England, is destroyed by fire. |
| 30 November 1939 | USSR, Finland [World War II (1939–45)] | The USSR invades Finland, with its main offensive to the north of Lake Ladoga. Finland responds by declaring war on the USSR. |
| 30 November 1978 | UK [newspapers] | The Times and The Sunday Times stop publication in the UK, when unions strike over the introduction of new computer typesetting equipment and resulting lost jobs. The strike will continue for 11 months. |
| 30 November 2006 | Philippines [natural disasters] | Typhoon Durian sweeps across the central Philippines causing flash flooding and mudslides. Over 1,000 people are feared dead in the disaster. |
