1811

1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 8 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
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 - Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali kills the last Mamluk leaders in the Citadel Massacre.
March 13 - Battle of Lissa (1811) - British fleet defeats the French one.
March 25 - The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.
April 5- April 6 - Revolutionary riots in Buenos Aires.
May 14 - Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
May 16 - Battle of Albuhera.
July 5 - Venezuela declares its independence from Spain.
July 11 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about molecular content of gases.
September - First annual Rosh Hashana kibbutz (pilgrimage) of Breslov Hasidim to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, led by Nathan of Breslov.
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 Midlands.
November 16 - Earthquake in Mississippi Valley near New Madrid reverses the course of the river for a while.

January 10 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
May 28 - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister (b. 1742)
August 20 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander (b. 1729)
September 8 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
October 11 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
November 18 - Adam Weishaupt, German professor, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748)
November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)
November 27 - Andrew Meikle, English engineer (b. 1719)af:1811