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1911
 
   
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company      
1911
 
   
Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I      
1911
 
     
Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo        
1911
 
    
G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown       
1911
 
    
The British chancellor, David Lloyd George, introduces the National Insurance Bill, providing workers with insurance in a few selected industries       
1911
 
     
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is broken up by US antitrust legislation        
1911
 
    
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories       
1911
 
    
US inventor Isaac Newton Lewis patents a lighter version of the machine gun       
1911
 
    
US driver Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 motor race       
1911
 
    
The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast