* 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.

Henry Dundas ( 1742 – 1811 ) dominated political affairs in the latter part of the century.

# Jane Elizabeth Lee ( January 1, 1811 – June 25, 1837 ); married Henry T. Harrison

* July 5 – Henry Barnard, American educationalist ( b. 1811 )

* March 12 – Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( b. 1811 )

* April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman ( d. 1811 )

* October 1 – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton ( d. 1811 )

* December 18 – Henry James Sr., American theologian ( b. 1811 )

* January 18 – Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford ( b. 1811 )

* November 6, 1811 – Battle of Tippecanoe: American troops led by William Henry Harrison defeat the Native American chief Tecumseh.

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

Frederic William Henry Myers was the son of Revd Frederic Myers ( 1811 – 1851 ) and his second wife Susan Harriet Myers nee Marshall ( 1811 – 1896 ).

* Sir Henry Knight Storks ( 1811 – 1874 ) 1859 – 1863

The position of Speaker first gained power under Henry Clay ( 1811 – 1814, 1815 – 1820, and 1823 – 1825 ).

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

The Pope Villa, built in 1811, is one of the best surviving domestic designs by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

The contract for the construction of the first section was awarded to Henry McKinley on May 8, 1811, and construction began later that year, with the road reaching Wheeling on August 1, 1818.

The Great Comet of 1811, as drawn by William Henry Smyth

The Great Comet of 1811, as drawn by William Henry Smyth

When General William Henry Harrison took an army from Vincennes to the Battle of Tippecanoe in late 1811, Cicott served as a scout ; the trail taken by Harrison's army passed through the area that later became Warren County on its way to and from the battle site in Tippecanoe County.

General William Henry Harrison ’ s army made its last camp in Sullivan County at Big Springs on September 29, 1811.

William Henry Harrison's troops camped near here on their 1811 march to the Battle of Tippecanoe.

When General William Henry Harrison took an army from Vincennes to the Battle of Tippecanoe in late 1811, Zachariah Cicott served as a scout.