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•  February 24, 1711 – The London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
•  August 22, 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

•  January 1, 1711 – Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
•  January 29, 1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
•  February 27, 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
•  May 18, 1711 – Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian atomic theorist (d. 1787)
•  July 22, 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
•  August 19, 1711 – Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
•  September 1, 1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
•  September 6, 1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
•  September 9, 1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
•  September 11, 1711 – William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)