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.

Although the existence of molecules has been accepted by many chemists since the early 19th century as a result of Dalton's laws of Definite and Multiple Proportions ( 1803 – 1808 ) and Avogadro's law ( 1811 ), there was some resistance among positivists and physicists such as Mach, Boltzmann, Maxwell, and Gibbs, who saw molecules merely as convenient mathematical constructs.

His observations appeared in four large folio volumes from 1776 – 1811, some of them being reprinted in Samuel Vince's Elements of Astronomy.

The tomb of William I of Sicily ( the founder's father ), a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

* 1811 — François Jean Dominique Arago discovers that some quartz crystals continuously rotate the electric vector of light

And in 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings.

From December 16, 1811 to February 4, 1812, the area was struck by a series of more than 2, 000 earthquakes, known as the New Madrid Earthquake, a series of shock waves believed by some to have been the greatest in North American history.

Patrick Brontë met his wife Maria Branwell ( they met in Rawdon, some dozen or so miles away from Hartshead ) in 1811 whilst he was parson of St Peter's Church.

At some unknown date before 1811, this altarpiece was carved up into these three fragments.

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

For some time before 1811, the Xhosa had taken possession of the neutral ground and attacked the colonists.

He opposed the recharter of the United States Bank in 1811 and in 1816, uniformly voted against any form of protective tariff ; he did favor some road construction by the federal government but generally opposed the policy of internal improvements promoted by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

The neighborhood known as " Five Points ", a notorious slum, developed near the former eastern bank of the Collect and owed its existence in some measure to the poor landfill job ( completed in 1811 ) which created swampy, mosquito-ridden conditions on land that had originally had more well-to-do residents.

In 1811 he wrote an important treatise on surgical anatomy and some terms he introduced have survived in surgical nomenclature until today.

The year 1811 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

On the eastern side of the road, a series of tree-lined open spaces and front gardens make up Rush Common — an area of common land that, although it is subject to protection under an Act of Parliament of 1811, has seen some incursions for building.

All three are based on a proposal by Venezuelan General Francisco de Miranda, which was adopted by Venezuela in 1811 and later Gran Colombia with some modifications.

From that date to the spring of 1811 the Mameluke beys from time to time relaxed certain of their demands ; the pasha on his part granted them some of what before had been withheld.

In 1811 he presented to the Geological Society of London a description of the geological structure of the vicinity of Dublin, with an account of some rare minerals found in Ireland.

Though David's fate is unknown, there is some evidence to suggest he died in Norfolk on December 11, 1811.

He arrived in Java in April 1811 aboard the French frigates Méduse and Nymphe and the corvette Sappho, accompanied by several hundred French troops ( light infantry ) and some senior French officers.

The year 1811 in architecture involved some significant events.

But it is more likely, as suggested by Richard Chandler ( Life of Waynflete, 1811 ), that it was some Yorkist attack on him in progress in the papal court, to meet which he appointed next day 19 proctors to act for him.

Aginskoye was founded in 1781 or, according to other sources, in 1811.

His sources included " Stumme Liebe " (" Silent Love ") from Volksmärchen der Deutschen by Johann Karl August Musäus ( 1735 – 1787 ), " Der grau Stube " (" The Grey Room ") by Heinrich Clauren ( 1771 – 1854 ), and six stories by Johann August Apel ( 1771 – 1816 ) and Friedrich August Schulze ( 1770 – 1849 ), five of which were from the first two volumes of their ghost story anthology Das Gespensterbuch (" The Ghost Book "); originally published in five volumes in Leipzig between 1811 and 1815 under the pen names A. Apel and F. Laun.

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.

He began composing it in the summer of 1810, and completed it in March 1811.

With the arrival of news in May 1810 that southern Spain had been conquered by Napoleon's forces, that the Spanish Supreme Central Junta had dissolved itself, declarations of independence in Quito ( 1809 ), Gran Colombia ( 1810 ), Venezuela and Paraguay ( 1811 ) and other territories, established their own governments.

One of his professors was Franz Xaver Heller ( 1775 – 1840 ), author of the (" Flora of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg ", 1810 – 1811 ).

When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm ( June 1811 ).

The four famines of 1810, 1811, 1846, and 1849 are said to have killed no fewer than 45 million people.

He served as Mayor in 1803 – 1807, 1808 – 1810, and 1811 – 1815.

Marie Louise became pregnant by July 1810 and gave birth to a son on 20 March 1811.

* Traité élémentaire d ' astronomie physique ( Klostermann, 1810 – 1811 )

This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet ( 1810 – 1811 ), here a group of nine asymmetrical cottages were laid out around a village green, Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as ' the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement '.

In 1810, Currie sold the mineral rights to Lewis Hepburn ( Abijah's Smith's partner ), and in 1811, Hepburn sold half of these rights to John Smith, Abijah's brother.

He published later a series of volumes on geological travels: in northern Europe ( 1810 ), in England ( 1811 ), and in France, Switzerland and Germany ( 1813 ).

In 1810 appeared the Philosophical Essays, in 1814 the second volume of the Elements, in 1811 the first part and in 1821 the second part of the " Dissertation " written for the Encyclopædia Britannica Supplement, entitled " A General View of the Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy since the Revival of Letters.

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.

Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the ideas of Jean-Georges Noverre ( 1727 – 1810 ), François Delsarte ( 1811 – 1871 ), and Rudolf Bode ( 1881 – 1970 ), who all believed in movement expression, where one used dance to express oneself and exercise various body parts.

He was in 1810 an unsuccessful candidate for the chair of law at Paris, and in 1811 he also failed to obtain the office of advocate-general at the Court of Cassation.

He was appointed to the vicarage of Coggeshall, Essex in ( 1810 ) and in 1811 he became Bampton Lecturer.

was Mayor of New York City from 1810 to 1811 and from 1815 to 1818.

In 1810 – 1811 he edited a quarterly magazine, the Reflector, for his brother John.

1810 – 1811, University College, Oxford, 20 June 1992.

His first work, a collection of Sacred Music, as performed at the Royal Portuguese Chapel, which appeared in 1811, has the additional interest of dating the founding of the publishing firm Novello & Co which carries his name, as he issued the collection from his own house ; and he did the same with succeeding works, till his son Joseph Alfred Novello ( 1810 – 1896 ), who had started as a bass singer, became a regular music publisher in 1829.

In 1810 and the first half of 1811 Speransky was still in high favor, and was the confidant of the emperor in that secret diplomacy which preceded the breach of Russia with Napoleon.

Karolinska Institutet was founded in the period between 1810 and 1811, following the Finnish War, as a training center for army surgeons.