1611

Year 1611 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - : Lord Delaware, governor at Jamestown, leaves the colony after extended illness, having arrived with 150 more settlers at "James Citty" on, . George Percy is Deputy Governor, awaiting arrival of.
 * - Most Reverend Miguel de Benavides, the third Archbishop of, founded the oldest university in Asia,.
 * - Sir Thomas Dale, new deputy governor of arrives off.
 * - : Sir Thomas Dale, new deputy governor of, on military leave from his previous post in the Low Countries, writes upon arriving, that crops have not been planted and no " has been sett" [archaic spelling], but that the "cattle, cows, goats, swine, poultry &c" are well.
 * - continues work on staging a totally original play, not based on previous publications, called .

July - December

 * - Jamestown: Sir, Deputy Governor returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control: the fort must be strengthened.
 * - Jamestown: with 350 men start building.
 * - succeeds his father  as king of Sweden.
 * - At in, 's romantic comedy  is performed for the first time.

Undated

 * Complete of the  is first published in.
 * and discover s.




 * End of the reign of.
 * ascends to the throne of.
 * Jamestown: imports  seeds from the island of, Nicotiana tabacum; native tobacco was Nicotiana rustica.
 * founds the city of on the  a few miles south of present day.
 * attacks.
 * becomes.
 * construction began.

Births

 * -, astronomer (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, Queen of Poland (died 1644)
 * - (died 1643)
 * -, German classical scholar (died )
 * -, Marshal of France (died )
 * -, Italian-born French commander (died )
 * date unknown
 * , second Prince of Liechtenstein (died )
 * , a vian painter (died )
 * probable
 * , musketeer (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, cartographer (born )
 * -, papal legate to Russia
 * -, Japanese warlord and samurai (born )
 * -, French poet (born )
 * -, Japanese warlord (born )
 * -, Japanese warlord and samurai (born )
 * -, Spanish composer (born )
 * -, French military leader (born )
 * - King (born )
 * date unknown -, sculptor (born )


 * See also .