1811 Calendar
Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)
1811 Historical Event(s)
January 8, 1811
– An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
March 9, 1811
– Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
March 25, 1811
– Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
May 18, 1811
– Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
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.
July 30, 1811
– Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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.
November 5, 1811
– Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
November 17, 1811
– José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
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 21, 1811
– Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
August 5, 1811
– Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
October 17, 1811
– Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American religious figure (d. 1876)
October 22, 1811
– Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
October 27, 1811
– Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
November 9, 1811
– Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins (d. 1872)
November 21, 1811
– Zeng Guofan, Chinese military leader (d. 1872)
November 24, 1811
– Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)