Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Lured by Austria-Hungary's promises for territorial gains from Bulgaria ( in return for concessions in the Western Balkans ), Milan IV declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

Two Foreign Legion companies led the defence at the celebrated Siege of Tuyên Quang ( 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885 ).

In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle John Minthorn, a frontier physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before.

Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945 ) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

Asians were also excluded, and in November 1885, a branch of the Knights in Tacoma, Washington worked to expel the city's Chinese, who amounted to nearly a tenth of the overall city population at the time.

In November 1885, the Knights of a Washington city pushed to get rid of their Asian population.

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

The university's founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords was issued in November 1885.

To further reform, a Swedish orthographic society ( Svenska rättstavningssällskapet ) was formed on November 28, 1885, chaired by linguist Adolf Noreen ( 1854 – 1925 ), and published a journal Nystavaren.

* November 27 – Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore ( d. 1885 )

* November 11 – Jerome Kern, American composer ( b. 1885 )

* November 2 – Michael Considine, Australian politician ( b. 1885 )

* November 24 – William Stowell, American silent film actor & director ( b. 1885 )

* November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( b. 1885 )

* November 7 – Chic Sale, American vaudevillian ( b. 1885 )

* November 17 – John Bowers, American actor ( b. 1885 )

* November 14 – Zengo Yoshida, Japanese admiral ( b. 1885 )

* November 5 – Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( b. 1885 )

* November 18 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1885 )

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married a much more distant relative, Maria Christina of Austria, daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria.

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

Alfonso Leng ( 11 February 1894 – 11 November 1974 ) was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist.

The death of Peter III on 11 November 1285 changed the Sicilian situation in that his kingdoms were divided between his two Alfonso III of Aragon, who received the crown of Aragon, and James II of Aragon, who succeeded as King of Sicily.

Colombian troops killed FARC leader Alfonso Cano in a firefight on 4 November 2011.

Alfonso Cano, former FARC Commander-in-Chief, was killed by Colombian military forces on 4 November 2011

* November 28 – King Alfonso XII of Spain ( d. 1885 )

* November 12 – Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince and military aviator ( d. 1975 )

* November 18 – Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and statesman ( d. 1878 )

* November 23 – King Alfonso X of Castile ( d. 1284 )

* November 4 – Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader ( b. 1948 )

* November 11 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile ( d. 1214 )

* November – Alfonso IV of Aragon begins his reign.

* November 9 – Sancha of Castile, queen of Alfonso II of Aragon ( b. 1155 )

The University was founded under the royal prerogative granted by King Alfonso V of Aragon, in Naples, on 3 November 1450.

Alfonso X ( 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284 ), called the Wise (), was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death.

Alfonso VIII ( 11 November 1155 – 5 October 1214 ), called the Noble or el de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo.

Alfonso was born to Sancho III of Castile and Blanche, daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre, in Soria on 11 November 1155.

* November 11 – Alfonso Leng, composer, 80