1811

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

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

Events

• Great Comet of 1811

• February 5 - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent because of King George III's (England) insanity.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.
• April 5 and 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

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)
• 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

Deaths

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

Heads of states

• 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)

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