| 78691 | July 11 | Event | 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. |
| 78692 | July 11 | Event | 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979. |
| 78693 | July 11 | Event | 1740 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia. |
| 78694 | July 11 | Event | 1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire. |
| 78695 | July 11 | Event | 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille. |
| 78696 | July 11 | Event | 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty. |
| 78697 | July 11 | Event | 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. |
| 78698 | July 11 | Event | 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. |
| 78699 | July 11 | Event | 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. |
| 78700 | July 11 | Event | 1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed. |
| 78701 | July 11 | Event | 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens. |
| 78702 | July 11 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C. |
| 78703 | July 11 | Event | 1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War. |
| 78704 | July 11 | Event | 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. |
| 78705 | July 11 | Event | 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. |
| 78706 | July 11 | Event | 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua. |
| 78707 | July 11 | Event | 1895 – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists. |
| 78708 | July 11 | Event | 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies. |
| 78709 | July 11 | Event | 1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. |
| 78710 | July 11 | Event | 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. |
| 78711 | July 11 | Event | 1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched. |
| 78712 | July 11 | Event | 1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands. |
| 78713 | July 11 | Event | 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany. |
| 78714 | July 11 | Event | 1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect. |
| 78715 | July 11 | Event | 1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic. |
| 78716 | July 11 | Event | 1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices. |
| 78717 | July 11 | Event | 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. |
| 78718 | July 11 | Event | 1924 – Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday |
| 78719 | July 11 | Event | 1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England. |
| 78720 | July 11 | Event | 1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. |