1st » Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali of Egypt or Muhammad Ali.
2nd » Argentine War of Independence: A Spanish Empire royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of May Revolution revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the Río de la Plata River Plate.
5th » Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno named Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
9th » Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
12th » Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, Marshal of France or French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
25th » Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet 'The Necessity of Atheism'.
Famous Birthdays on March in 1811
7th » Increase A. Lapham, American scientist and author (d. 1875)
11th » Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1877)