| 16291 | February 11 | Event | 1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public. |
| 16292 | February 11 | Event | 1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal. |
| 16293 | February 11 | Event | 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time. |
| 16294 | February 11 | Event | 1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London. |
| 16295 | February 11 | Event | 1826 – Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri, an important text within Swaminarayan Hinduism. |
| 16296 | February 11 | Event | 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France. |
| 16297 | February 11 | Event | 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy. |
| 16298 | February 11 | Event | 1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam |
| 16299 | February 11 | Event | 1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta. |
| 16300 | February 11 | Event | 1858 – Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. |
| 16301 | February 11 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. |
| 16302 | February 11 | Event | 1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates. |
| 16303 | February 11 | Event | 1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted the first National Diet convenes in 1890. |
| 16304 | February 11 | Event | 1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria. |
| 16305 | February 11 | Event | 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos. |
| 16306 | February 11 | Event | 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control. |
| 16307 | February 11 | Event | 1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany. |
| 16308 | February 11 | Event | 1925 – Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, Inc. Was Founded At The College of New Jersey |
| 16309 | February 11 | Event | 1929 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty. |
| 16310 | February 11 | Event | 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers. |
| 16311 | February 11 | Event | 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot". |
| 16312 | February 11 | Event | 1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes. |
| 16313 | February 11 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore. |
| 16314 | February 11 | Event | 1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe. |
| 16315 | February 11 | Event | 1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. |
| 16316 | February 11 | Event | 1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel. |
| 16317 | February 11 | Event | 1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom. |
| 16318 | February 11 | Event | 1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus. |
| 16319 | February 11 | Event | 1968 – Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage. |
| 16320 | February 11 | Event | 1968 – The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins. |