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| 1811 |
| | | Marie Louise gives birth to a boy, Napoleon's longed-for heir, to be known as the King of Rome | |
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| 1811 |
| | | A 12-year-old Dorset child, Mary Anning, discovers at Lyme Regis a 21 ft (6.4m) fossil of an icthyosaur | |
|  | Fossil of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, a marine reptile
Natural History Museum, London
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| 1811 |
| | | All but one of 300 Mameluke guests are assassinated during an entertainment by Muhammad Ali in Cairo | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes a hypothesis, about the number of molecules in gases, that becomes known as Avogadro's Law | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism | |
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| 1811 |
| | | English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Masked Luddites smash machinery in night raids on factories in Nottingham | |
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| 1811 |
| | | John Jacob Astor establishes Astoria, a settlement on the Pacific coast to develop his fur trade with China | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Mortlake’s two small breweries merge as a single business | |
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| 1811 |
| | | The citizens of Bogotá declare the independence of the province of Colombia | |
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