1811

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years:	1808 1809 1810 - 1811 - 1812 1813 1814

1811 in topic:
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Countries: Australia - Canada - France - Germany - Ireland - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - UK - USA
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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Year 1811 (MDCCCXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1811

July 5 - Venezuela declares its independence from Spain.
July 11 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about the molecular content of gases.
September - 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.

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 in northern England and the Midlands.
November 6 - Battle of Tippecanoe: American troops led by William Henry Harrison defeat the Native American chief Tecumseh.
November 17 - José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
December 16 - The New Madrid earthquake in Mississippi Valley near New Madrid reverses the course of the river for a while. Other earthquakes along the fault occur on January 23, 1812 and February 7, 1812.

July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (d. 1863)
August 31 - Theophile Gautier, French writer (d. 1872)
September 19 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
October 22 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and pianist (d. 1886)
October 25 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
October 27 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
November 21
- Zeng Guofan, Chinese official and military leader (d. 1872)
- Ludwig Preiss, Botanical collector (d. 1883)
November 24 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1890)
December 21 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)
date unknown
- Mohammad Afzal Khan, Emir of Kabul, Emir of Kandahar (d. 1867)

July 30 - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1753)
August - William Williams, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1731)
August 20 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander (b. 1729)
September - Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, explorer (b. 1767)
September 8 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
October 11 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)
November 27 - Andrew Meikle, English engineer (b. 1719)

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