* 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.

* St. Irvyne ; or, The Rosicrucian by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1811, London, John Joseph Stockdale

Young Percy Bysshe Shelley read Barruel's book with excitement between 1811 and 1814.

Bodleian Library. The Necessity of Atheism is a treatise on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing while he was a student at University College, Oxford.

* April 13-Bishop Thomas Percy, literary critic ( died 1811 )

Thomas Percy ( 13 April 1729 – 30 September 1811 ) was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland.

Percy Shelley initially planned to visit him, but changed his plans in the spring of 1811 after he fell in love with a young woman named Harriet Westbrook.

In October 1811 Percy left for London to mediate in a dispute between his father and his uncle.

* 1765 " Reliques of Ancient English Poetry " by Thomas Percy ( 1721 – 1811 )

Percy Shelley also published a gothic novella: St. Irvyne in 1811.

** Lord Josceline Percy ( 1811 – 1881 ), politician

* Lord Josceline William Percy ( 1811 – 1881 ), married Margaret Davidson and had issue.

* Thomas Percy ( bishop of Dromore ) ( 1729 – 1811 ), Bishop of Dromore and collector of Percy's Reliques

Born in 1792, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a child of the Age of Enlightenment, was expelled from England's Oxford University in 1811 for submitting to the Dean an anonymous pamphlet that he wrote entitled, The Necessity of Atheism.

Shelley published a second Gothic novel in 1811, St. Irvyne ; or, The Rosicrucian, about an alchemist who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

In early 1811 Shelley and Hogg published The Necessity of Atheism, which outraged the Oxford authorities.

97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio for piano, violin, and cello, finished in 1811.

As early as 1805, Gay-Lussac and von Humboldt showed that water is formed of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen, and by 1811 Amedeo Avogadro had arrived at the correct interpretation of water's composition, based on what is now called Avogadro's law and the assumption of diatomic elemental molecules.

In his published journals, Thompson recorded seeing large footprints near what is now Jasper, Alberta, in 1811.

The renamed Emsworth Recreation Ground dates from 1909 and is the current home of Emsworth Cricket Club, which was founded in 1811 and celebrated its Bicentennial in 2011.

It is known that Leocadia had an unhappy marriage with a jeweler, Isideo Weiss, but was separated from him since 1811.

As Greenwich Village was once a rural hamlet, to the north of the 17th century European settlement on Manhattan Island, its street layout is more haphazard than the grid pattern of the 19th-century grid plan ( based on the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 ).

* 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

* 1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

* 1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

* 1811 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

Some feel that the popular use of the term " Regency dance " is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency ( the future George IV ruling on behalf of mad King George III ) lasted only from 1811 until 1820.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym " A Lady ".

* 1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.

The stunning Prussian victory over the Second French Empire in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 is sometimes partly credited to the training of Prussian officers with the game Kriegspiel, which was invented around 1811 and gained popularity with many officers in the Prussian army.

* 1811: The Red River Colony is founded in Manitoba, Canada.

* March 22, 1811 – The Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 for Manhattan is presented.

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

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