* 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 )

British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.

He served as an assistant priest or curate in various parishes and in 1810, published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems.

Ecuador's military history dates far back to its first attempt to secure freedom from Spain in 1811.

The word " halogen " had actually first been proposed in 1811 by Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger as a name for the newly discovered element chlorine, but Davy's proposed term for this element eventually won out, and Schweigger's term was kept at Berzelius ' suggestion as the term for the element group that contains chlorine.

The first attacks of the Luddite movement began in 1811.

His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.

The first work Jacob Grimm published, Über den altdeutschen Meistergesang ( 1811 ), was of a purely literary character.

* 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.

* 1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.

* 1811 – Inventor John Stevens ' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry ( service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey ).

This order, first described by J. Illiger in 1811, encompasses the trunked mammals.

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 ".

In 1811, a decision was made to establish the first university in the Dano-Norwegian Union, after a successful campaign which resulted in an agreement with King Fredrik VI.

* September, 1811 – Nathan of Breslov leads the first annual Rosh Hashana kibbutz ( pilgrimage ) of Breslov Hasidim to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine.

The first British performance was in May 1811, at the King's Theatre, London.

Their first well-known find was in 1811, when Mary was 12 ; Joseph dug up a 4-foot ichthyosaur skull and a few months later, Mary found the rest of the skeleton.

The rotation of the orientation of linearly polarized light was first observed in 1811 in quartz by French physicist François Jean Dominique Arago.

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

In January 1811, Calhoun married Floride Bonneau Calhoun, a first cousin once removed.

The first " shout of independence " in El Salvador came in 1811, at the hands of Criollo elite.

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.

Hostile to the regulatory effects of the central bank, private banks – proliferating with or without state charters – had scuttled rechartering of the first BUS in 1811.

This wasn't the first time that the military of El Salvador saw combat ; in 1811 the Independence Movement " The First Shout of Independence " was the first of a series of revolts in Central America in El Salvador against Spanish colonialism and dependency on the Captaincy General of Guatemala.