* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral ( d. 1761 )

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

* 1645 – Eusebio Kino, Italian missionary ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Joseph Vaz, Indian priest, Apostle of Ceylon ( d. 1711 )

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

Their commander-in-chief that day, Marshal Tallard – who, unlike his subordinates, had not been ransomed or exchanged – was taken to England and imprisoned in Nottingham until his release in 1711.

* François Lamy ( 1636 – 1711 )

* Guillaume du Tillot ( 1711 – 1774 ), politician

The Scottish philosopher David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism.

* 1711 – The London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.

* 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia ( d. 1769 )

* 1711 – Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat ( d. 1794 )

* 1688 – 1711: Philip William, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt ( son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral ( b. 1711 )

* 1711 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian ( b. 1641 )

* 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German-Anglican theologian ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain ( d. 1783 )

* 1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer and organist ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist ( d. 1753 )

* 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( b. 1651 )

* 1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal ( d. 1711 )

* ( 1857 ) Mémoires relatifs à la Guerre de succession de 1706-1709 et 1711, de Sicco van Goslinga, publiés par mm.

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

* January 10 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal ( d. 1711 )

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* October 8 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer ( b. 1711 )

The original settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile was relocated in 1711 to the head of Mobile Bay following a series of floods.

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

* February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile ( Alabama ), before Mobile is moved 27 miles ( 43 km ) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.

* Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ( 1711 – 1780 ), novelist, author of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast

In 1705 he founded the Order of Sincerity ( Ordre de la Sincérité ), which was renamed in 1734 to the Order of the Red Eagle and had the monastery church built, which was completed in 1711.

The reconstruction after the Raid on Cartagena ( 1697 ) was initially slow, but with the end of the War of the Spanish Succession around 1711 and the competent administration of Juan Díaz de Torrezar Pimienta, the walls were rebuilt, the forts reorganized and restored, and the public services and buildings reopened.

After moving the 1702 settlement of Mobile to Mobile Bay in 1711, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville sent an expedition up the Alabama River to establish a fort in the interior of New France, both to stop the encroachment of the British and to foster trade and goodwill with the Creek.

* Introduction til de fornemste Europæiske Rigers Historier, 1711 ( Eng.

Works of art include the 1711 pulpit by Robrecht Verburgh, the main altarpiece by Gaspar de Crayer ( 17th century ) and a sculpture of the " Suffering Christ ", donated by the beguine Anna de Floz.

Duker was also an authority on ancient law, and published Opuscula varia de latinitate veterum jurisconsultorum ( 1711 ), and a revision of the Leges Atticae of S. Petit ( 1741 ).

* René Duguay-Trouin ( 1673 – 1736 ) French corsair and Admiral that captured the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1711

* Lettres de Mr flechier évêque de nismes sur divers sujets ( 1711 )