Important Historical Events of the year 1811, Year 1811 in History

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List of 1811 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1811

What happened in the year 1811?

Date	Event
January 8, 1811	Charles Deslondes leads an unsuccessful slave revolt in the North American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
January 17, 1811	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.
March 1, 1811	Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
March 2, 1811	Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
March 5, 1811	Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
March 9, 1811	Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
March 12, 1811	Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
March 13, 1811	A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars.
March 25, 1811	Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
May 14, 1811	Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor.
May 16, 1811	Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera.[6] It is, in proportion to the numbers involved, the bloodiest battle of the war.
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 José Artigas.
June 16, 1811	Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers.
July 5, 1811	The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
July 9, 1811	Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.
July 30, 1811	Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
August 3, 1811	First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
October 11, 1811	The Juliana begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry in New York harbor.
October 17, 1811	The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.
November 5, 1811	Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
November 7, 1811	Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
November 17, 1811	José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
November 28, 1811	Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
December 16, 1811	The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
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.