What happened in 1811?

Egyptian–Wahhabi War

Wars & Conflicts · Arabian Peninsula

Conflict of 1811-1818

Battle of Tippecanoe

Wars & Conflicts · Battle Ground

1811 battle

Battle of Albuera

Wars & Conflicts · La Albuera

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of the Gebora

Wars & Conflicts · Gévora

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro

Wars & Conflicts · Fuentes de Oñoro

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Barrosa

Wars & Conflicts · Loma del Puerco battlefield

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Huaqui

Wars & Conflicts · La Paz Department

1811 battle of the Bolivian War of Independence

Battle of Saguntum

Wars & Conflicts · Sagunto

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Siege of Valencia

Wars & Conflicts · Valencia

1811–1812 siege during the Peninsular War

Siege of Tarragona

Wars & Conflicts · Tarragona City

1811 siege during the Peninsular War

Battle of Calderón Bridge

Wars & Conflicts

1811 battle

Battle of Montserrat

Wars & Conflicts · Montserrat

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Siege of Figueras

Wars & Conflicts · Figueres

1811 siege during the Peninsular War

Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos

Wars & Conflicts · Arroyomolinos

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Casal Novo

Wars & Conflicts

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of El Bodon

Wars & Conflicts · El Bodón

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Bornos

Wars & Conflicts · Bornos

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Pombal

Wars & Conflicts · Pombal

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Redinha

Wars & Conflicts · Redinha

1811 battle of the Peninsular War

Battle of Sabugal

Wars & Conflicts · Sabugal

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Blockade of Almeida

Wars & Conflicts · Almeida

1811 blockade during the Peninsular War

Battle of Usagre

Wars & Conflicts · Usagre

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Foz de Arouce

Wars & Conflicts · Freguesia de Foz de Arouce

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Yanbu

Wars & Conflicts · Yanbu

1811 confrontation between the Ottomans and Saudi State

Battle of Cervera

Wars & Conflicts · Cervera

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Cogorderos

Wars & Conflicts · Cogorderos

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Campo Maior

Wars & Conflicts · Campo Maior

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of San Nicolás

Wars & Conflicts · Paraná River

1811 naval battle between Spanish royalists and Buenos Aires revolutionary government

Battle of Pla

Wars & Conflicts · El Pla de Santa Maria

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Siege of Montevideo

Wars & Conflicts · Montevideo

1811 siege

Second siege of Badajoz

Wars & Conflicts · Badajoz

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Arlabán

Wars & Conflicts · mountain pass of Arlaban

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Paraguarí

Wars & Conflicts · Paraguarí

1811 battle

Battle of Anholt

Wars & Conflicts · Anholt

1811 battle of the Gunboat War

First siege of Badajoz

Wars & Conflicts · Badajoz

1811 siege during the Peninsular War

Siege of Tarifa

Wars & Conflicts · Tarifa

1811–1812 siege during the Peninsular War

Battle of the Danube

Wars & Conflicts · Slobozia

1811 conflict

Siege of Olivença

Wars & Conflicts · Olivenza

1811 siege during the Peninsular War

Battle of Navas de Membrillo

Wars & Conflicts · Mérida

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of El Veladero

Wars & Conflicts · Cerro El Veladero

1811 battle

Battle of Zujar

Wars & Conflicts · Zújar

1811 battle during the Peninsular War

Battle of Zacatecas

Wars & Conflicts · Zacatecas

Pivotal battle in the Mexican War of Independence.

Battle of Lissa

Wars & Conflicts · Adriatic Sea

1811 naval action in the Adriatic Sea

Action of 29 November 1811

Wars & Conflicts · Adriatic Sea

1811 minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Tamatave

Wars & Conflicts · Toamasina

1811 naval battle fought off Tamatave in Madagascar between British and French frigate squadrons during the Napoleonic Wars

Independence of Paraguay

Wars & Conflicts · Paraguay

Independence process of Paraguay (1811-1814)

Citadel massacre

Wars & Conflicts · Cairo Citadel

Mohammad Ali Pasha's 1811 massacre of Mamluk leaders

Battle of San José

Wars & Conflicts · San José de Mayo

1811 battle

Invasion of Java

Wars & Conflicts · Java

1811 British amphibious operation

Peter Simon Pallas died

People · Berlin

German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen died

People · Ta'izz

German physician, naturalist, explorer and orientalist (1767-1811)

Nevil Maskelyne died

People · Greenwich

Fifth Astronomer Royal (*1765 – †1811)

Johannes van der Kemp died

People · Cape Town

Dutch missionary

Magdalena Ortega de Nariño died

People · Bogotá

Colombian activist (1762-1811)

Johann Beckmann died

People · Göttingen

German philosopher, economist and agronomist

Andrew Meikle died

People · East Lothian

Scottish engineer

Girolamo Francesco Cristiani died

People · Verona

Italian engineer and economist (1731-1811)

Robert Mylne died

People · Edinburgh

Scottish architect and civil engineer (1733-1811)

Hans Momsen died

People · Fahretoft

North Frisian farmer, mathematician and astronomer

Jean Trembley died

People · Le Mas-d'Agenais

Genevan mathematician (1749-1811)

Nicolas Ozanne died

People · Paris

French naval engineer (1728–1811)

Albanis Beaumont died

People · Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval

Engraver and landscape painter

William Green died

People · Canterbury

British Army general; (1725-1811)

Auguste-Savinien Leblond died

People · Paris

French mathematician

Patrick Wilson died

People · Kensington Square

Scottish astronomer (1743-1811)

Alexander MacKay died

People · Clayoquot Sound

Canadian fur trader and explorer (1770-1811)

José Cardero died

People · Écija

Spanish artist

Eliza Poe died

People · Richmond

Mother of Edgar Allan Poe (1787–1811)

Hershel of Ostropol died

People · Medzhybizh

Jewish prankster (1757–1811)

Gilles-Louis Chrétien died

People · Paris

French cellist and engraver (1754–1811)

Joseph Leutgeb died

People · Vienna

Austrian musician

Antonia Zárate died

People · Madrid

Spanish actress

Emilie Rosing died

People · Copenhagen

Danish singer and stage actress

Johanna Löfblad died

People · Stockholm

Swedish actress

William Thomas Lewis died

People · London

British actor; (1746-1811)

Franz Liszt born

People · Raiding

Born in Raiding. Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886).

Harriet Beecher Stowe born

People · Litchfield

Born in Litchfield. American abolitionist and author (1811–1896).

William Makepeace Thackeray born

People · Kolkata

Born in Kolkata. British novelist (1811–1863).

Théophile Gautier born

People · Tarbes

Born in Tarbes. French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872).

Vissarion Belinsky born

People · Suomenlinna

Born in Suomenlinna. Russian literary critic (1811-1848).

Napoleon II born

People · Paris

Born in Paris. The second Emperor of the French (1815).

Urbain Le Verrier born

People · Saint-Lô

Born in Saint-Lô. French astronomer (1811-1877).

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento born

People · San Juan

Born in San Juan. Argentinian politician and writer (1811-1888).

Louis Blanc born

People · Madrid

Born in Madrid. French politician and historian (1811-1882).

John William Draper born

People · St Helens

Born in St Helens. British-American academic (1811-1882).

Karl Gutzkow born

People · Berlin

Born in Berlin. German writer (1811-1878).

Karel Jaromír Erben born

People · Miletín

Born in Miletín. Czech archivist, poet, ethnographer, librettist, publicist, lawyer, translator and writer (1811–1870).

François Achille Bazaine born

People · Versailles

Born in Versailles. French general (1811-1888).

Jón Sigurðsson born

People · Hrafnseyri

Born in Hrafnseyri. Leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement (1811-1879).

Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye born

People · former 7th arrondissement of Paris

Born in former 7th arrondissement of Paris. French politician (1811-1883).

Sengge Rinchen born

People · Horqin Left Rear Banner

Born in Horqin Left Rear Banner. Chinese general (1811–1865).

Victor Duruy born

People · former 12th arrondissement of Paris

Born in former 12th arrondissement of Paris. French historian and statesman (1811-1894).

Emperor Norton born

People · London

Born in London. San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.

Karl Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden died

People · Karlsruhe

Died in Karlsruhe. German noble (1728-1811).

Pagan Min born

People · Amarapura

Born in Amarapura. King of Burma (1811–1880).

Massachusetts General Hospital

Science & Technology

Teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

University of Tartu Old Observatory

Science & Technology

Former observatory of University of Tartu, Estonia, currently a museum

Wrocław University Botanical Garden

Science & Technology

Botanical garden

McLean Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital in Massachusetts, United States

University of Oslo

Science & Technology

Norwegian public research university

Graz University of Technology

Science & Technology

Institute of technology in Austria

Egyptian Military College

Science & Technology

Military academy

Ain Traz

Science & Technology

Seminary

St Peter's College, Wexford

Science & Technology

Secondary school in Summerhill, Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland

Rimatara

Exploration & Discovery

Island in France

Bodega Bay

Exploration & Discovery

inlet in California

Buffalo Springs Historical Archeological District

Exploration & Discovery

archaeological site in Virginia, United States

Godak minaret

Religion & Belief Systems

Mosque in Shaki, Azerbaijan

Hussite church in Žamberk

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Žamberk, Czech Republic

Cathedral of the Dormition, Rylsk

Religion & Belief Systems

Big Synagogue in Jarosław

Religion & Belief Systems

Neziner Congregation

Religion & Belief Systems

Former Philadelphian synagogue

Poststraße 2

Religion & Belief Systems

Timber frames house, former synagogue, in Burgdorf, Region Hannover, Germany

Epiphany church, Arzamas

Religion & Belief Systems

Temple in Arzamas, Russia

Cathedral Basilica of St. Demetrius

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia

Church of Saint Nicholas, Zasimavičy

Religion & Belief Systems

Old Jewish Cemetery

Religion & Belief Systems

Cemetery in Łódź, Poland

Temple protestant de Vauvert

Religion & Belief Systems

Church located in Gard, in France

West Street Baptist Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, UK

cemetery chapel in Turośl

Religion & Belief Systems

Cultural heritage monument in Poland

Reformed Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Grosshöchstetten in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Owasco Reformed Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in New York, United States of America

Congregational Church of Chelsea

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Chelsea, United States of America

First Baptist Church of Deerfield

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in New York, United States of America

Dvory - kříž

Religion & Belief Systems

Church of Saint Michael Archangel in Walawa

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Walawa, Poland

Wayside cross near house 57

Religion & Belief Systems

SunTrust Banks

Economy & Trade · Atlanta

American bank holding company

N M Rothschild & Sons

Economy & Trade · London

Investment company

Uniqa Insurance Group

Economy & Trade · Vienna

Austrian insurance company

Knjaz Miloš AD

Economy & Trade · Aranđelovac

Serbian carbonated mineral water

Novello & Co

Economy & Trade · London

Music publisher

Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik

Economy & Trade · Oberndorf am Neckar

Former state owned firearms manufacturer

Bowring Brothers

Economy & Trade · St. John's

Canadian retail chain (1811–2019)

Clinch & Co Brewery

Economy & Trade · Witney

English brewery founded in 1811

Heimbach Group

Economy & Trade · Mariaweiler

Supplier of textiles for paper manufacturing and environmental technology

Lloyd's Agency Network

Economy & Trade · Lloyd's building

Girard Bank

Economy & Trade · Philadelphia

Philadelphia based bank

1812 New Madrid earthquake

Disasters & Pandemics

Series of earthquakes from December 1811 to February 1812 affecting the Louisiana Territory (now Missouri)

Great Podil fire

Disasters & Pandemics

1811 fire in Podil

Richmond Theatre fire

Disasters & Pandemics · Richmond Theatre

Theatre fire in Richmond, Virginia in 1811

Cry of Asencio

Social Movements & Revolutions · Soriano Department

Spanish Rebellion in Uruguay

1811 Independence Movement

Social Movements & Revolutions · Captaincy General of Guatemala

1811 revolt against Spanish rule in colonial El Salvador

Candelária Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Rio de Janeiro

Reformed church in Košice

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Košice, Slovakia

Glenorchy Parish Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

St Hilda's Church, South Shields

Architecture & Engineering · South Shields

Grade II listed building in South Shields, South Tyneside, UK

Falkirk Old Parish Church

Architecture & Engineering · Falkirk

Church in Falkirk, Scotland, UK

St. John's Episcopal Church

Architecture & Engineering · Beltsville

Church in Beltsville, Maryland, United States

Hollis Street Church (1811)

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Massachusetts, United States of America

Valongo Wharf

Architecture & Engineering

Former wharf in Rio de Janeiro

Tirana Clock Tower

Architecture & Engineering

Cultural heritage monument of Albania

Pirámide de Mayo

Architecture & Engineering · Plaza de Mayo

Monument in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Oratoire du Louvre

Architecture & Engineering

Church located in Paris, in France

Saint Catherine of Alexandria orthodox church

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Russia

Trinity Church on Sparrow Hills

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Russia

Church of the Holy Cross of the Military

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tippecanoe Battlefield Park

Architecture & Engineering

the location of the Battle of Tippecanoe fought on November 7, 1811

Monkton Borough Baptist Church

Architecture & Engineering

church building in Monkton, United States of America

Ivy Hill

Architecture & Engineering

historic site in Marriottsville, Maryland

Cemitério dos Ingleses

Architecture & Engineering

Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro

Paraguay founded

Empires & Countries · Asunción

Paraguay was founded, with its capital at Asunción.

Kingdom of Haiti founded

Empires & Countries · Cap-Haïtien

Kingdom of Haiti was founded, with its capital at Cap-Haïtien.

State of Haiti dissolved

Empires & Countries · Milot

State of Haiti ceased to exist, having been centered at Milot.

Principality of Salm dissolved

Empires & Countries · Bocholt

Principality of Salm ceased to exist, having been centered at Bocholt.

Jamkhandi State founded

Empires & Countries

Jamkhandi State was founded.

Venezuela founded

Empires & Countries · Caracas

Venezuela was founded, with its capital at Caracas.

Islands of Refreshment founded

Empires & Countries

Islands of Refreshment was founded.

Rajpara State founded

Empires & Countries

Rajpara State was founded.