| 25 November 1072 | Seljuk Sultanate [administration] | The Seljuk sultan, Alp Arslan, is murdered while campaigning in Transoxiana. He is succeeded by his son, Malik Shah. |
| 25 November 1120 | England [political events] | William, the son and heir of King Henry I of England, is drowned when the White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel, on its way to England from Normandy. |
| 25 November 1185 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | Humbert Crivelli, archbishop of Milan, is elected Pope Urban III following the death of Pope Lucius III. |
| 25 November 1276 | Germany, Austria, Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, Moravia [treaties] | Following King Rudolf I of Germany's siege of Vienna and a revolt in Bohemia, King Ottokar II of Bohemia, by the Treaty of Vienna, surrenders Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and all his other lands except Bohemia and Moravia, for which he does homage to Rudolf. Rudolf then makes Vienna the capital of his Habsburg lands. |
| 25 November 1277 | Papal States, Italy [administration] | John Gaetan is elected Pope Nicholas III. |
| 25 November 1489 | Granada, Spain, Castile, Aragon [wars] | Mohammed XII Zagal of Granada surrenders to King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I of Aragon and Castile when they capture the city of Baza in Granada. Mohammed XI Boabdil resumes the rule of the kingdom of Granada, which has been reduced by the surrender of the cities of Almería and Guadix with Mohammed XII Zagal. |
| 25 November 1835 | USA, Scotland [births and deaths] | Andrew Carnegie, US steel magnate and philanthropist, born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland (–1919). |
| 25 November 1875 | UK, Egypt [canals] | Britain buys 176,602 shares in the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea from Khedive Ismail of Egypt, the canal being a vital part of the route to India. |
| 25 November 1892 | France [Olympic Games] | The French educational reformer and social philosopher Pierre Fredi, Baron de Coubertin calls for a revival of the Olympic Games in a speech at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), France. |
| 25 November 1915 | [births and deaths] | Augusto Pinochet, Chilean president 1973–89, and military dictator, born. |
| 25 November 1936 | Germany, Japan, China [treaties] | Germany and Japan sign an anti-Comintern pact and agree to work together against international communism. Germany also recognizes Japan's regime in Manchuria, China. |
| 25 November 1953 | England [football] | England's footballers lose at Wembley in London, England, for the first time to an overseas team, beaten 6–3 by Hungary. Six months later, Hungary confirms its overwhelming superiority over England with a 7–1 victory in Budapest, Hungary. |
| 25 November 1975 | Surinam, Netherlands [decolonization] | Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana, gains its independence from the Netherlands. |
| 25 November 2001 | USA [physiology] | Advanced Cell Technology, a US biotechnology company based in Massachusetts, announces that it has successfully created a human embryo through cloning, for the purpose of developing stem cells. |
| 25 November 2002 | Iraq [diplomacy] | United Nations (UN) arms inspectors return to Iraq after a four-year absence to search for evidence of weapons of mass destruction that the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is suspected of developing. The return of the inspectors, led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, follows earlier unanimous UN Security Council support for a resolution demanding full Iraqi compliance. |
| 25 November 2005 | England [births and deaths] | George Best, Northern Irish football icon who played for Manchester United and Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, dies in London, England (59). |
