1711

January–March

• January - Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edward Hyde to replace Thomas Cary, as the governor of the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina. Hyde's policies are deemed hostile to Quaker interests, leading former governor Cary and his Quaker allies to take up arms against the province.
• January 24 - The first performance of Francesco Gasparini's most famous opera Tamerlano takes place at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice.
• February - French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart.
• February 3 - A total lunar eclipse occurs, at 12:31 UT.
• February 24
• * Thomas Cary, after declaring himself Governor of North Carolina, sails an armed brigantine up the Chowan River, to attack Governor Hyde's forces fortified at Colonel Thomas Pollock's plantation. The attack fails, and Cary's forces retreat.
• * Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, premieres at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket.
• March 1 - The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London.

  April–June

• April 3 - Clipperton Island is rediscovered by Frenchmen Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who draws up the first map and claims the island for France. The island had been discovered by Alvaro Saavedra Cedrón in 1528.
• April 5 - The central tower of Elgin Cathedral in northeast Scotland collapses.
• April 13 - The Treaty of the Lutsk, a secret agreement between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Protectorate of Moldavia is signed in Lutsk, Poland-Lithuania.
• April 17 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor dies, opening the way for the succession of his brother Charles VI. This complicates the ongoing War of the Spanish Succession as Charles is one of the two candidates for the Spanish throne, backed by the Grand Alliance.
• April 29 - A rabid wolf fatally injures two shepherds in Roncà, North Italy; it also attacks livestock.
• May - Alexander Pope publishes the poem An Essay on Criticism in London.
• May 25 - In Denmark, Helsingør is put under military blockade to prevent an outbreak of plague from spreading to Copenhagen; this year about one third of Helsingør's population is killed by the disease.
• June 18 - King Louis XIV becomes the longest-reigning monarch in the world, surpassing the previous record of 68 years set by Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal in 683. As of 2022, Louis XIV still holds this record.

  July–September

• July 2 - Cary's Rebellion: Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia dispatches a company of Royal Marines to assist Governor Hyde. After hearing of this, Cary's troops abandon all of their fortifications along the Pamlico River. Cary and many of his supporters are soon caught and sent to England as prisoners, ending Cary's Rebellion.
• July 11 - The town of São Paulo, Brazil, is elevated to city status.
• July 21 - The Treaty of the Pruth is signed between the Ottoman Empire and Russia, ending the Pruth River Campaign.
• July 29 - Total lunar eclipse at 17:50 UT.
• August 1 - The Dutch East India Company trading ship Zuytdorp leaves the Netherlands on an ill-fated voyage to Indonesia bearing a load of freshly minted silver coins. The wreck site remains unknown until the mid-20th century, on a remote part of the Western Australian coast between Kalbarri and Shark Bay.
• August 7 - Capture of the galleon San Joaquin: Spanish galleon San Joaquin in a treasure fleet sailing from Cartagena de Indias to Spain surrenders after an engagement with five British ships.
• August 9 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough with an army of 30,000 besieges Bouchain in the War of the Spanish Succession. The siege lasts 34 days and results in the last major victory for Churchill.
• August 11 - The first horse race is held at the newly founded Ascot Racecourse, which becomes one of the leading racecourses in England.
• August 13 - Tamachi Raisinhji becomes Jam Sahib of Nawanagar State in Gujarat, India.
• August 14 - The inauguration of the newly built Cathedral of the Assumption takes place in Gozo, Malta.
• August 22 - The Quebec Expedition, a British attempt to attack Quebec as part of Queen Anne's War, fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River and 890 people, mostly soldiers, drown.
• September 8 - The South Sea Company receives a Royal Charter in Britain.
• September 10 - John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried, two African American slaves and two Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern, North Carolina, and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River.
• September 14 - Tuscarora natives capture John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried and their expeditionary party, and bring them to Catechna.
• September 16 - Tuscarora natives kill Lawson. Von Graffenried and one African American slave are known to have been set free.
• September 18 - Bishop Bogusław Gosiewski sells the town of Maladzyechna in the Minsk Region of Belarus to the mighty Ogiński family.
• September 22 - The Tuscarora War begins when Tuscarora natives under the command of Chief Hancock raid settlements along the south bank of the Pamlico River, within the Province of Carolina, killing around 130 people.

  October–December

• October 7 - is wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia with the loss of 102 lives.
• October 11 - Panic kills 241 people in the stampede on the Guillottière bridge in France near Lyon. Revelers returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône river are blocked by from crossing after a collision between a carriage and a cart. At least 25 fall off the bridge and into the river, while 216 are trampled by people behind them.
• October 14
• *Yostos kills Tewoflos, becoming Emperor of Ethiopia.
• *Woodes Rogers returns to England after a successful round-the-world privateering cruise against Spain, carrying loot worth £150,000.
• October 16 - Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts is established in Brussels.
• November 5 - The southwest spire of Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire, England is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ.
• November 7 - The Dutch East India Company ship Liefde runs aground and sinks off Out Skerries, Shetland, with the loss of all but one of her 300 crew.
• December 5 - Great Northern War: the Battle of Wismar results in a Danish victory over Swedish forces.
• December 7 - In the Parliament of Great Britain the Earl of Nottingham successfully proposes a "No Peace Without Spain" amendment.
• December 8 - The Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Comayagua in Honduras, one of the oldest cathedrals in Central America, is inaugurated.
• December 12 - A constitution is approved for the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna, which had been founded in 1690.
• December 13 - Wall Street in New York City becomes the city's first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Africans and Indians.
• December 15 - The Old Pummerin, a massive bell cast from 208 captured cannons, is consecrated by Bishop Franz Ferdinand Freiherr von Rummel in preparation for its installation in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna.
• December 25 - The rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament; Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666 Great Fire of London.

  Date unknown

• John Shore invents the tuning fork.
• Luigi Ferdinando Marsili shows that coral is an animal rather than a plant as previously thought.

  Births

January–March

• January 1 - Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian noble
• January 3
• * Charles Moss, British bishop of Bath and Wells
• * Giuseppe Capece Zurlo, Italian cardinal who served as Archbishop of Naples
• January 12 - Gaetano Latilla, Italian opera composer
• January 15 - Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann, German poet
• January 22 - Johann Phillip Fabricius, German missionary
• January 28 - Johan Hörner, Swedish-born Danish portrait painter
• January 29 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer
• January 30 - Abraham Roentgen, German Ébéniste
• February 2 - Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Austrian diplomat and chancellor
• February 3 - Omar Ali Saifuddin I, Sultan of Brunei
• February 4 - Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski, Polish prince
• February 5 - Joseph Umstatt, Austrian composer of the early Classical era
• February 6 - Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset, English cricketer
• February 9
• * Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, England
• * Luis Vicente de Velasco, Spanish officer and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy
• February 10 - John Plumptre, British politician
• February 13 - Domènec Terradellas, Spanish opera composer
• February 14 - Alexandra Kurakina, daughter of Lieutenant-General and Senator Ivan Panin
• February 23 - Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, French general
• February 25
• * Tokugawa Gorōta, Japanese daimyō
• * John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, British politician with Irish connections
• February 27
• * Gerrit de Graeff, member of the De Graeff family from the Dutch Golden Age
• * Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia
• March 4 - Matthäus Stach, Moravian missionary in Greenland
• March 5 - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist and painter
• March 11 - Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown, Irish peer and politician
• March 22 - Samuel Gotthold Lange, German poet
• March 24 - William Brownrigg, doctor and scientist