* 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

* 1811 – Elisha Otis, American inventor and businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company ( d. 1861 )

* 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA ( d. 1888 )

* 1765 – 1811 Nevil Maskelyne

* 1811 – 1835 John Pond

* 1741 – Samuel Chase, American justice of the Supreme Court ( d. 1811 )

The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).

* 1811 – Alson Sherman, American politician ( d. 1903 )

* 1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician ( b. 1757 )

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* Robert Bunsen ( 1811 – 1899 ), German chemist, after whom is named:

* Luigi Tosti ( 1811 – 97 )

Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph ( 1811 – 1832 ) was created king of Rome ( 1811 – 1814 ) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

#* Napoléon ( II ) François Joseph Charles Bonaparte ( 1811 – 1832 ) Napoléon II, son of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

With Minna Waldeck he also had three children: Eugene ( 1811 – 1896 ), Wilhelm ( 1813 – 1879 ) and Therese ( 1816 – 1864 ).

* Richard Cumberland ( dramatist ) ( 1732 – 1811 ), civil servant and dramatist

* 1878 – Alfred Bird, chemist ( b. 1811 )

* 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.

In 1811 independence movements broke out in El Salvador in reaction to events in the Peninsular War, and again in 1814 after the restoration of Ferdinand VII.

In 1811, surveyor George J. F. Clarke platted the town of Fernandina, named in honor of Spain's King Ferdinand VII.

Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet ( 3 June 1736 – 12 August 1811 ) was commander of the naval forces of Grand Duchy of Tuscany and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV.

Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther ( October 25, 1811 – May 7, 1887 ) was the first President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian.

For mutual defense, Cali also formed, with Anserma, Cartago, Toro, Buga and Caloto, the " Friend Cities of the Cauca Valley ", also known as Confederated cities of the Cauca Valley, which declared independence from the Governorate of Popayán on 1 February 1811, although they continued to recognize the absent Ferdinand VII as their head of state.

( These developments of mesmerism were based upon a medical theory proposed in 1807 be the respected physician Johann Christian Reil and were adopted by Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge in an influential textbook of animal magnetism published in 1811 ).

* Carl Ferdinand Allen ( 1811 – 1871 ), Danish historian

* Old Town Fernandina, Fernandina Beach, Florida ; the last town in the Western Hemisphere to be platted according to the Spanish " Law of the Indies " in 1811 ; named for King Ferdinand VII

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

In 1811, surveyor George J. F. Clarke platted the town of Fernandina, named in honor of King Ferdinand VII of Spain by the governor of the Spanish province of East Florida, Enrique White.

* Charles Ferdinand, Count Bentinck ( 1764 – 1811 ), a Dutch politician and colonial statesman

* 1736 – Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer ( d. 1811 )

* 1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer and bookseller ( d. 1811 )

** Heinrich von Kleist, German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer ( d. 1811 )

* February 2 – Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati ( d. 1811 )

* September 22 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist ( d. 1811 )

The original source for is a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix ( 1811 – 1873 ), ( The Prison ).

The 1811 German Coast Uprising, which took place outside of New Orleans in 1811, involved up to 500 slaves.

* 1811 German Coast Uprising, ( 1811 )

While the 1811 German Coast Uprising in Louisiana involved a greater number of slaves, it resulted in only two white fatalities.

Baroness Jenny von Gustedt, born as Jeromée Catharina Rabe von Pappenheim ( 1811 – 1890 ), one of Jérôme Bonaparte's illegitimate children, was the grandmother of the German Socialist and Feminist writer Lily Braun.

In 1846, in the midst of the liberal milieu that led to the Revolutions of 1848, the German writer Karl Gutzkow ( 1811 – 1878 ) wrote Uriel Acosta, a play about Costa's life.

The earliest portrayers of the local landscape include Emanuel Thelning, a Swede sent to Kangasala by baron Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt after he himself had visited the healing spring of Kuohu in 1811 and the German Carl von Kügelgen, royal painter of Alexander I, who painted at least three paintings representing Kangasala.

On January 8, 1811, the largest slave insurrection in US history, known as the German Coast Uprising, started here.

In 1811, German philosopher Karl Krause, suggested, in an essay titled " The Archetype of Humanity ", the formation of five regional federations: Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia, aggregated under a world republic.

On 8 January 1811, planters were alarmed by the German Coast Uprising led by Charles Deslondes, a free person of color from Haiti ( formerly the French colony of Saint-Domingue ).

On January 8, 1811 a slave revolt began near Laplace known as the 1811 German Coast Uprising.

Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker ( 15 October 1811 – 21 July 1886 ) was a German historian and politician.

The Common House Martin has two geographical subspecies, the western nominate subspecies D. u. urbicum, and the eastern D. u. lagopodum, which was described by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1811.

The final Austrian Civil Code ( called Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, ABGB ) was only completed in 1811 after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation under the influence of the Napoleonic Wars.