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1811

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 - 1811 - 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of states

Events

• February 5 - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom.He is known as the Prince Regent. This is the beginning of the period known as the English Regency.
• March 1 - Leaders of the Mameluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali.
• March 25 - The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.
• April 5- April 6 - Revolutionary riots in Buenos Aires.
• May 14 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
• July 5 - Venezuela is the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
• July 11 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about molecular content of gases
• October 11 - Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
• November - Luddite uprisings begin

Year in topic

• 1811 in art
• 1811 in literature:
  • Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
• 1811 in science
• 1811 in music

Births

• January 9 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer
• January 17 - Joshua Abraham Norton, later Emperor Norton I of the United States (or February 14, 1819).
• February 3 - Horace Greeley, journalist, editor, publisher (+ 1872).
• February 6 - Henry George Liddell, Dean of the Christ Church, Oxford.
• March 20 - Napoleon II of France (+ 1832)
• March 30 - Robert Bunsen, chemist, inventor: Bunsen burner (+ 1899)
• July - William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist
• August 31 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
• October 22 - Franz Liszt, composer
• October 27 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan
• November 24 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (+ 1890)

Deaths

• May 28 - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister (*1742)
• September 8 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (* 1741)

Heads of states

• China - Jiaqing Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (February 9, 1796 to September 2, 1820)
• Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark, (1808-1839) and King of Norway (1808-1814)
• France - Napoléon I, Emperor of France (1804-1814)
• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Spain - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain (1808-1813)
• Russia - Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)
• United States - James Madison, President of the United States (March 4, 1809 to March 4, 1817)

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