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1811 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

1811
MDCCCXI

Ab urbe condita

2564

Armenian calendar

1260
ԹՎ ՌՄԿ

Assyrian calendar

6561

Balinese saka calendar

1732–1733

Bengali calendar

1218

Berber calendar

2761

British Regnal year

51 Geo. 3 – 52 Geo. 3

Buddhist calendar

2355

Burmese calendar

1173

Byzantine calendar

7319–7320

Chinese calendar

庚午 (Metal Horse)
4507 or 4447
    — to —
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4508 or 4448

Coptic calendar

1527–1528

Discordian calendar

2977

Ethiopian calendar

1803–1804

Hebrew calendar

5571–5572

Hindu calendars

 - Vikram Samvat

1867–1868

 - Shaka Samvat

1732–1733

 - Kali Yuga

4911–4912

Holocene calendar

11811

Igbo calendar

811–812

Iranian calendar

1189–1190

Islamic calendar

1225–1226

Japanese calendar

Bunka 8
(文化8年)

Javanese calendar

1737–1738

Julian calendar

Gregorian minus 12 days

Korean calendar

4144

Minguo calendar

101 before ROC
民前101

Nanakshahi calendar

343

Thai solar calendar

2353–2354

Tibetan calendar

阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
1937 or 1556 or 784
    — to —
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
1938 or 1557 or 785

 

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1811 (MDCCCXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1811th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 811th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1811, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Contents

·       1Events

o   1.1January–March

o   1.2April–June

o   1.3July–September

o   1.4October–December

o   1.5Date unknown

·       2Births

o   2.1January–June

o   2.2July–December

o   2.3Date unknown

·       3Deaths

·       4References

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

·       January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana.[1][2]

·       January 17 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.

·       January 22 – The Casas Revolt begins in San AntonioSpanish Texas.[3]

·       February 5 – British RegencyGeorge, Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent, because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom.

·       February 19 – Peninsular War – Battle of the Gebora: An outnumbered French force under Édouard Mortier routs and nearly destroys the Spanish, near Badajoz, Spain.

·       March 1 – Citadel Massacre in CairoEgyptian ruler Muhammad Ali kills the last Mamluk leaders.

·       March 5 – Peninsular War – Battle of Barrosa: A French attack fails, on a larger Anglo-Portuguese-Spanish force attempting to lift the Siege of Cádiz in Spain.

·       March 13 – Battle of Lissa: The British fleet defeats the French.

·       March 22 – The Commissioners' Plan for Manhattan is presented.

·       March 25 – The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.

·       March 27 – Battle of Anholt: The British Navy defeats Denmark.

·       March 28 – Henri Christophe is proclaimed King Henri I, turning the northern State of Haiti into the Kingdom of Haiti.

April–June[edit]

·       April 56 – Revolutionary riots occur in Buenos Aires.

·       May 14 – Paraguay declares independence from the Spanish Empire (recognised May 15).[4][5]

·       May 16 – Peninsular War – Battle of Albuera: Spain, Portugal and Great Britain defeat the French.

·       May 18 – Battle of Las Piedras near Las PiedrasBanda Oriental: The independentists of Uruguay gain their first victory.

·       June 9 – The Great Podil fire breaks out in KievUkraine.[6]

·       June 10 – A volcanic eruption briefly creates Sabrina Island (Azores).

·       June 15 – The Klågerup riots erupt in Sweden.

July–September[edit]

·       July 5 – Venezuela declares its Independence from the Spanish Empire.[7]

·       July 9 – British explorer David Thompson posts a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern-day Washington (state)), claiming the area for the United Kingdom.

·       July 11 – The Russian Empire removes Anton IICatholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, from his office, placing a Russian-appointed bishop at the head of the Georgian church.

·       July 14

·       Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about the molecular content of gases.

·       David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Columbia River, finding Fort Astoria under construction.

·       July 30 — Mexican War of Independence: Priest and military leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is executed as a rebel, by the Spanish government of New Spain.[8]

·       August 3 – Jungfrau, the third highest summit in the Bernese Alps, is first ascended.

·       September – Nathan of Breslov leads the first annual Rosh Hashana kibbutz (pilgrimage) of Breslov Hasidim, to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine.

October–December[edit]

·       October 11 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry service, between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.

·       October 23 – José Gervasio Artigas and 16,000 orientales leave the Banda Oriental del Uruguay, to go into exile.

·       October 26 – The Argentine Government declares freedom of expression for the press.

·       November 4 – Luddite uprisings, in which factory employees destroy industrial machines, begin in northern Englandand the Midlands. According to one historian, "The first attack on textile machines by men who used the name 'General Ludd' and called themselves his followers, was on the night of 4th November 1811 in the village of Bulwell, four miles north of Nottingham, when a small band of men gathered in the darkness and marched to the home of a master weaver called Hollingsworth," then destroyed six of his weaving machines. [9]

·       November 7 – Battle of Tippecanoe: American troops led by William Henry Harrison defeat the Native American spiritual leader Tenskwatawa, also known as The Prophet (Chief Tecumseh's brother).

·       November 17 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

·       December 2 – Reverend Samuel Marsden sends the first commercial shipment of wool, from New South Wales to England.

·       December 16 – The New Madrid earthquake in the Mississippi Valley, near New Madrid, reverses the course of the river for a while. Other earthquakes along the fault occur on January 231812 and February 71812.

·       December 21 – The first Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela, after it declares its independence from Spain, goes into effect.

·       December 26 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

Date unknown[edit]

·       The Red River Colony is founded in Manitoba, Canada.[10]

Births[edit]

January–June[edit]

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Robert Bunsen

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

·       January 6 – Charles Sumner, American senator, civil rights activist (d. 1874)[11]

·       January 9 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)

·       February 1 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (d. 1833)

·       February 3 – Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)

·       February 6 – Henry George Liddell, English clergyman (d. 1898)

·       February 13 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (d. 1888)

·       February 15 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentinian politician, writer and father of education (d. 1888)

·       February 16 – Béla Wenckheim, 8th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1879)

·       March 20

·       Napoleon II of France (d. 1832)

·       Alfred Domett, 4th Premier of New Zealand (d. 1887)

·       March 21 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)

·       March 30 or March 31 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899)

·       May 5 – Francisco Robles, 6th President of Ecuador (d. 1893)

·       May 11

·       Chang and Eng BunkerSiamese twins and sideshow performers (d. 1874)

·       Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)

·       May 20 – Alfred Domett, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1887)

·       June 3 – Henry James, Sr., American theologian (d. 1882)

·       June 8 – Carl Johan Thyselius, 3rd Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1891)

·       June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author, abolitionist (d. 1896)

·       June 17 – Jón Sigurðsson, leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement (d. 1879)

·       June 24 – John Archibald CampbellAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1889)

July–December[edit]

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Franz Liszt

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Évariste Galois

·       July 11

·       Isaac A. Van Amburgh, American animal trainer (d. 1865)

·       William Robert Grove, Welsh chemist, inventor (d. 1896)

·       July 13 – George Gilbert Scott, British architect (d. 1878)

·       July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (d. 1863)

·       August 11 – Judah P. BenjaminCabinet officer of the Confederate States (d. 1884)

·       August 31 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (d. 1872)

·       September 2 – J.C. Jacobsen, Danish industrialist, founder of Carlsberg Group (d. 1887)

·       September 13 – Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen, French general (d. 1884)

·       September 19 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)

·       September 30 – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890)

·       October 22 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, pianist (d. 1886)

·       October 25

·       Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)

·       C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)

·       October 27 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan (d. 1843)

·       November 21 – Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883)

·       November 24 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1890)

·       November 26 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese official, military leader (d. 1872)

·       November 28 – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)

·       December 5 – Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)

·       December 21 – Archibald Campbell TaitArchbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)

Date unknown[edit]

·       Mohammad Afzal Khan, Emir of Kabul, Emir of Kandahar (d. 1867)

Deaths[edit]

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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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Heinrich von Kleist

·       January 10 – Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)

·       February 24 – James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan, English noble and politician (b. 1715)

·       February 26 – Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, Governor of Chile (b. 1727)

·       March 14 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of GraftonPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)

·       April 7 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat, politician (b. 1757)

·       May 4 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)

·       May 28 – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister (b. 1742)

·       June 26 – Ignacio Allende, captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico (b. 1769)

·       July 30 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1753)

·       August – William Williams, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1731)

·       August 31 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator, military commander (b. 1729)

·       September – Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767)

·       September 8 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)

·       September 14 – Johanna Löfblad, Swedish actor, singer (b. 1733)

·       October 11 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist (b. 1724)

·       October 15 – Eva Merthen, Finnish political activist (b. 1723)

·       November 21 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)[12]

·       November 27 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer (b. 1719)

References[edit]

1.     ^ Fessenden, Marissa. "How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

2.     ^ "'American Rising': When Slaves Attacked New Orleans". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

3.     ^ LAURA, CALDWELL, (2010-06-12). "CASAS REVOLT". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

4.     ^ "Timeline: Paraguay". 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

5.     ^ "Paraguay - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

6.     ^ "View of the Podil Area of Kiev". 1900. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

7.     ^ Society, National Geographic (2013-12-16). "Venezuelan Independence Day". National Geographic Society. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

8.     ^ "Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | Facts, Accomplishments, & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

9.     ^ Lisl Klein, The Meaning of Work: Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs (Karnac Books, 2008) p63

10.   ^ "Red River Settlement | colony, Canada". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

11.   ^ "Sumner, Charles | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865". www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

12.   ^ Stein, Sadie (2014-10-16). "Final Chapter". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2017-12-10.

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