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

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

* 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy ( d. 1762 )

* 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 )

* 1711: Rinaldo, Handel's first opera for the London stage, premiered

He was shown against a backdrop of the skyline of London as it would have appeared in 1711 with St Paul's towering above the other city buildings.

In 1711, parliament passed an Act for the building of Fifty New Churches in the Cities of London and Westminster or the Suburbs thereof, which established a commission which included Christopher Wren, John Vanburgh, Thomas Archer and a number of churchmen.

Within a large and varied musical output, Handel was a vigorous champion of Italian opera, which he had introduced to London in 1711 with Rinaldo.

After a year in London, he returned to Glasgow and, in 1711, was appointed by the university to the professorship of mathematics, an office which he retained until 1761.

France and Great Britain had come to terms in October 1711, when the preliminaries of peace had been signed in London.

In 1711, Thornhill was one of the 12 original directors of Sir Godfrey Kneller's academy at Great Queen Street, London.

Laguerre was also a director of Godfrey Kneller's London Academy of Drawing and Painting, founded in the autumn of 1711.

Coming to London as apprentice to a bookseller, he took over in 1711 the publishing business of Richard Chiswell ( 1639 – 1711 ), and, at the sign of the Bible and the Crown in Paternoster Row, he carried on a business almost entirely connected with theological and educational literature.

Newcastle House which he inherited from his uncle in 1711, and used as his primary London residence, often throwing lavish parties there.

By 1711, informed London audiences had become familiar with the nature of Italian opera through the numerous pastiches and adaptations that had been staged.

In 1697 the distinguished clockmaker Joseph Knibb ( 1640 – 1711 ) retired from London to Hanslope, acquiring Green End Farm with a total of about of land.

An Act of Parliament in 1711 levied a tax on coal imports into the Port of London to fund the scheme and appointed a commission to oversee the project.

That same year, he was admitted to the London Company of Barber-Surgeons, passing the final examination on 29 January 1711.

James Watson, who had previously reprinted the London Tatler in Edinburgh, began his own Tatler there on 13 January 1711, with " Donald Macstaff of the North " replacing Isaac Bickerstaffe.

In August 1711 he was sent on a secret mission to London to detach Britain from the alliance against France, and succeeded in securing the adoption of eight articles which formed the base of the later Treaty of Utrecht.

Later, some of Agrippina's music was used by Handel in his London operas Rinaldo ( 1711 ) and the 1732 version of Acis and Galatea, in each case with little or no change.

St George in the East is an Anglican Church and one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, England, built from 1714 to 1729, with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament.

* Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel ( London, 1711 )

Situated on Commercial Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on the eastern border and facing the City of London, it was one of the first ( and arguably one of the finest ) of the so-called " Commissioners ' Churches " built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an Act of Parliament in 1711.

* Anthony Vaughan, Born to Please: Hannah Pritchard, Actress, 1711 – 1768 ( London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1979 )