1811

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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1811 in topic
Humanities
Archaeology – Architecture – Art
Film - Literature – Music - (jazz)
By country
Australia – Belgium – Brazil – Bulgaria – Canada – Denmark – France – Germany – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Philippines – Portugal – Russia – South Africa – Spain – Sweden – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela
Other topics
Rail transport – Science – Sports
Lists of leaders
Sovereign states – State leaders – Territorial governors – Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works
1811 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1811
MDCCCXI
Ab urbe condita2564
Armenian calendar1260
ԹՎ ՌՄԿ
Assyrian calendar6561
Balinese saka calendar1732–1733
Bengali calendar1218
Berber calendar2761
British Regnal year51 Geo. 3 – 52 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2355
Burmese calendar1173
Byzantine calendar7319–7320
Chinese calendar庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4507 or 4447
    — to —
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4508 or 4448
Coptic calendar1527–1528
Discordian calendar2977
Ethiopian calendar1803–1804
Hebrew calendar5571–5572
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1867–1868
 - Shaka Samvat1732–1733
 - Kali Yuga4911–4912
Holocene calendar11811
Igbo calendar811–812
Iranian calendar1189–1190
Islamic calendar1225–1226
Japanese calendarBunka 8
(文化８年)
Javanese calendar1737–1738
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4144
Minguo calendar101 before ROC
民前101年
Nanakshahi calendar343
Thai solar calendar2353–2354
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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March 13: Battle of Lissa

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September
  • 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), claiming the area for the United Kingdom.
  • July 11 – The Russian Empire removes Anton II, Catholicos-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 26 – Forest fires break out in the Tyrol region of Switzerland, reportedly destroying 64 villages and hamlets.[8]
  • 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.[9]
  • 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
  • October 17 – The silver deposits of Agua Amarga in Chile are discovered becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.[10]
  • 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 22 Franz Liszt is born.
  • 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 England and 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.[11]
  • 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 23, 1812 and February 7, 1812.
  • December 21 – The first Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela, after it declares its independence from Spain, goes into effect.
  • December 26 – The Richmond Theatre fire in Virginia kills 72 people, including the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia, Abraham B. Venable.[8]

Date unknown

Births

January–June
Robert Bunsen
Harriet Beecher Stowe

July–December
Franz Liszt
Georg August Wallin
Évariste Galois

Date unknown
  • Mohammad Afzal Khan, Emir of Kabul, Emir of Kandahar (d. 1867)

Deaths
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Heinrich von Kleist

References
  1. Fessenden, Marissa. "How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History". Smithsonian. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  2. "'American Rising': When Slaves Attacked New Orleans". NPR.org. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  3. LAURA, CALDWELL (June 12, 2010). "CASAS REVOLT". tshaonline.org. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  4. "Timeline: Paraguay". July 3, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  5. "Paraguay - Countries - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  6. "View of the Podil Area of Kiev". 1900. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  7. Society, National Geographic (December 16, 2013). "Venezuelan Independence Day". National Geographic Society. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  8. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp66
  9. "Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | Facts, Accomplishments, & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  10. Cortés Lutz, Guillermo (2017). Chañarcillo, cuando de las montañas brotó la plata (PDF). Cuadernos de Historia (in Spanish). Vol. II. Museo Regional de Atacama. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.
  11. Klein, Lisl (2008). The Meaning of Work: Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs. Karnac Books. p. 63.
  12. "Red River Settlement | colony, Canada". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  13. "Sumner, Charles | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865". www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  14. "Wallin, Georg August (1811–1852)". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish).
  15. "Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla". Encyclopaedia Britannica. May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  16. Stein, Sadie (October 16, 2014). "Final Chapter". The Paris Review. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
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