* 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.

* 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the University of Copenhagen the recently established University of Berlin.

Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family: his grandfather, Vincent ( 1789 – 1874 ), had received his degree of theology at the University of Leiden in 1811.

The Protestant Viadrina University of Frankfurt ( Oder ) was relocated to Breslau in 1811, and united with the local Jesuit University to create the new Silesian Frederick-William University ( Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität, now University of Wrocław ).

In 1811 he entered Lund University where he took the doctorate in 1814.

* William McMaster ( 1811 – 1887 ), banker, statesman, a founder of McMaster University

The university was closed in 1811, and its assets divided between two new universities founded under King Frederick William III: Frederick William University of Berlin, presently Humboldt University ; and Silesian Frederick William University in Breslau, presently the University of Wrocław.

James H. Dormon, a University of Southwestern Louisiana professor of history and American studies, in a 1978 anthology, " Readings in Louisiana History "; wrote an article concerning the revolt of 1811 as did the late Thomas Marshall Thompson in the winter 1992 edition of Louisiana Quarterly.

Between 1648 and 1811 the University of Harderwijk operated in the city.

) The resulting volume was entitled A Tour to New Connecticut in 1811, and was published later after the manuscript was discovered in the Yale University library.

Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898 ) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean ( 1855 – 91 ) of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster ( 1846 – 55 ) of Westminster School ( where a house is now named after him ), author of A History of Rome ( 1857 ), and co-author ( with Robert Scott ) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek.

Thus, in 1808 he was placed by Napoleon upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presided ( in the years 1809, 1811 and 1813 ) over commissions charged to examine the state of the higher educational establishments in the districts beyond the Alps and the Rhine which had been annexed to France, and to report upon the means by which these could be affiliated with the central university.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original New York City street grid established in the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue ( formerly Fourth ) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, a graduate of Yale University who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue.

In 1810 he became professor extraordinarius in theology, and in 1811 ordinarius, at the University of Halle, where, in spite of many offers of high preferment elsewhere, he spent the rest of his life.

In 1811 a Norwegian university was established in Christiania ( later named Oslo ).

In 1811, a resolution was passed to establish Norway's first university in Christiania ( Oslo ).

The University of Oslo was established in 1811 under the name Royal Frederick University, but due to the Napoleonic War it was not until 1815 that Sverdrup could receive the 50, 000 volumes, then in Copenhagen, intended for the new university library.

Upon his release from prison in 1811, he took up work as a farmer and industrialist at Bakkehaugen near Christiania ( present day's Oslo ), and in 1815 he married Andrea Andersdatter, who died in childbirth.

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 ".

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.