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1811 Historical Event(s)
January 8, 1811
– An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
February 28, 1811
– Cry of Asencio, begin of the Uruguayan War of Independence
March 9, 1811
– Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
May 14, 1811
– Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
July 5, 1811
– Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
July 9, 1811
– Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
August 3, 1811
– First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
October 1, 1811
– The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
December 16, 1811
– The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today’s heartland states of the United States.
December 26, 1811
– 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.
Who Were Born On 1811?
January 6, 1811
– Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874)
February 3, 1811
– Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
June 7, 1811
– James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)
June 21, 1811
– Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
June 24, 1811
– John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1889)
July 18, 1811
– William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
August 3, 1811
– Elisha Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
August 22, 1811
– William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
August 29, 1811
– Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
October 24, 1811
– Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885)