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March 13 :Battle of Lissa 1811 (MDCCCXI ) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Sunday of theJulian calendar , the 1811th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 811th year of the2nd millennium , the 11th year of the19th century , and the 2nd year of the1810s 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.
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January 8 – Anunsuccessful slave revolt is led byCharles Deslondes , in St. Charles and St. James Parishes,Louisiana .[ 1] [ 2] January 17 –Mexican War of Independence –Battle of Calderón Bridge : A heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.January 22 – TheCasas Revolt begins inSan Antonio ,Spanish Texas .[ 3] February 5 –British Regency :George, Prince of Wales becomesprince regent , because of the perceived insanity of his father, KingGeorge III of the United Kingdom .February 19 –Peninsular War –Battle of the Gebora : An outnumbered French force underÉdouard Mortier routs and nearly destroys the Spanish, nearBadajoz , Spain.March 1 –Citadel Massacre inCairo :Egyptian rulerMuhammad Ali kills the lastMamluk leaders.March 5 –Peninsular War –Battle of Barrosa : A French attack fails, on a larger Anglo-Portuguese-Spanish force attempting to lift theSiege of Cádiz in Spain.March 13 –Battle of Lissa : The British fleet defeats the French.March 22 – TheCommissioners' Plan forManhattan is presented.March 25 – TheGreat Comet of 1811 is discovered byHonoré Flaugergues .March 27 –Battle of Anholt : The British Navy defeats Denmark.March 28 –Henri Christophe is proclaimed King Henri I, turning the northernState of Haiti into theKingdom of Haiti .July 5 –Venezuela declares its Independence from the Spanish Empire.[ 6] July 9 – TheGreat Podil fire breaks out inKiev ,Ukraine .[ 7] July 9 – British explorerDavid Thompson posts a notice at the confluence of theColumbia andSnake Rivers (in modern-dayWashington ), claiming the area for the United Kingdom.July 11 – TheRussian Empire removesAnton II ,Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia , from his office, placing a Russian-appointed bishop at the head of the Georgian church.July 14 July 26 – Forest fires break out in theTyrol region ofSwitzerland , reportedly destroying 64 villages and hamlets.[ 8] July 30 –Mexican War of Independence : Priest and military leaderMiguel Hidalgo y Costilla is executed as a rebel, by the Spanish government ofNew Spain .[ 9] August 3 –Jungfrau , the third highest summit in theBernese Alps , is first ascended.September –Nathan of Breslov leads the first annualRosh Hashana kibbutz (pilgrimage) ofBreslov Hasidim, to the grave of RabbiNachman of Breslov inUman, Ukraine .October 11 – InventorJohn Stevens ' boat, theJuliana , begins operation as the firststeam -poweredferry service, betweenNew York City andHoboken, New Jersey .October 17 – The silver deposits ofAgua Amarga in Chile are discovered becoming, in the following years, instrumental for thePatriots to finance theChilean War of Independence .[ 10] October 23 –José Gervasio Artigas and 16,000orientales leave theBanda Oriental delUruguay , to go into exile.October 26 – TheArgentine Government declares freedom of expression for the press.November 4 –Luddite uprisings, in which workers destroy industrial machines, begin innorthern England and theMidlands . 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 ofBulwell , four miles north ofNottingham , 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 byWilliam Henry Harrison defeat theNative 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 ofChile .December 2 – ReverendSamuel Marsden sends the first commercial shipment of wool fromNew South Wales to England.December 16 – TheNew Madrid earthquake in theMississippi Valley , nearNew Madrid , reverses the course of the river for a while. Other earthquakes along the fault occur onJanuary 23 ,1812 andFebruary 7 ,1812 .December 21 – Thefirst Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela , after it declares its independence from Spain, goes into effect.December 26 – TheRichmond Theatre fire in Virginia kills 72 people, including the Governor of VirginiaGeorge William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia,Abraham B. Venable .[ 8] Robert Bunsen Harriet Beecher Stowe January 6 –Charles Sumner , American senator, civil rights activist (d.1874 )[ 13] January 9 –Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , English writer (d.1856 )January 27 –Ernst Dieffenbach , German scientist (d.1855 )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 March 30 orMarch 31 –Robert Bunsen , German chemist, inventor (d.1899 )May 5 –Francisco Robles , 6th President of Ecuador (d.1893 )May 11 May 20 –Alfred Domett , 4thPrime 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 centuryIcelandic independence movement (d.1879 )June 24 –John Archibald Campbell ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1889 )Franz Liszt Georg August Wallin Évariste Galois July 11 July 13 –George Gilbert Scott , British architect (d.1878 )July 18 –William Makepeace Thackeray , British novelist (d.1863 )August 5 –Ambroise Thomas , French composer (d.1896 )August 11 –Judah P. Benjamin ,Cabinet officer of the Confederate States (d.1884 )August 31 –Théophile Gautier , French writer (d.1872 )September 2 –J.C. Jacobsen , Danish industrialist, founder ofCarlsberg 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 )[ 15] October 24 –Georg August Wallin , Finnishorientalist , explorer and professor (d.1852 )[ 16] October 25 October 27 –Stevens Thomson Mason , first governor of Michigan (d.1843 )October 31 –William Loring , British admiral (d.1895 )November 8 –John Tarleton , British admiral (d.1880 )November 21 November 24 –Ulrich Ochsenbein , Swiss Federal Councilor (d.1890 )November 26 –Zeng Guofan , Chinese official, military leader (d.1872 )November 28 – KingMaximilian II of Bavaria (d.1864 )December 5 –Justus Carl Hasskarl , German explorer, botanist (d.1894 )December 21 –Archibald Campbell Tait ,Archbishop of Canterbury (d.1882 )Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Heinrich von Kleist January 8 –Samuel Story , Dutch admiral (b.1752 )January 10 –Marie-Joseph Chénier , French poet (b.1764 )February 9 –Nevil Maskelyne , English Astronomer Royal (b.1732 )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 12 –Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev ,Galician Jewish modern Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet (b.1764 )March 14 –Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.1735 )April 4 –Mary Woffington , Irish socialite (b.1729 )[ 17] 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 19 –Samuel Chase ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b.1741 )June 26 –Ignacio Allende , captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico (b.1769 )July 29 –William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (b.1748 )July 30 –Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , leader of theMexican War of Independence (b.1753 )[ 18] August 2 –William Williams , Connecticut politician, signer of theUnited States Declaration of Independence (b.1731 )August 12 –Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet , Prime Minister of Naples (b.1736 )August 31 –Louis Antoine de Bougainville , French navigator, military commander (b.1729 )September –Ulrich Jasper Seetzen , German explorer (b.1767 )September 4 –Matsumura Goshun , Japanese artist (b.1752 )September 8 –Peter Simon Pallas , German zoologist (b.1741 )September 14 –Johanna Löfblad , Swedish actor, singer (b.1733 )September 21 –William Adams , British politician (b.1752 )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 )[ 19] November 27 –Andrew Meikle , Scottish engineer (b.1719 )^ Fessenden, Marissa."How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History" .Smithsonian . 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