November 1865

Friday 10:

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

Saturday 11:

Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Saturday 18:

Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

Sunday 26:

1865 -The Battle of Papudo between Spain and a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet.