Historical Events In 1811

Jul 18   William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair) on this day in history.   

Jul 19   On this day in history christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76   

Jul 19   Vincenz Lachner, composer in the year 1811.   

Jul 20   On this day in history james Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)   

Jul 27   Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed in the year 1811.   

Jul 28   Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies in the year 1811.   

Jul 30   Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico in the year 1811.   

Jul 31   Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish on this day in history.   

Aug 02   William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80 in the year 1811.   

Aug 03   In the year 1811 elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)   

Aug 03   Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

Aug 06   On this day in history judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]   

Aug 11   Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6] on this day in history.   

Aug 12   In the year 1811 john FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77   

Aug 17   In the year 1811 johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will)   

Aug 18   In the year 1811 johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78   

Aug 20   In the year 1811 gilman Marston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1890   

Aug 25   On this day in history joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

Aug 26   In the year 1811 danville Leadbetter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866   

Aug 29   Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA in the year 1811.   

Aug 30   Thomas Gautier, writer in the year 1811.   

Aug 31   In the year 1811 goode Bryan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885   

Sep 03   Ignaz Franzl, composer, dies at 75 in the year 1811.   

Sep 03   On this day in history john Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)   

Sep 06   On this day in history james Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)   

Sep 06   Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1811.   

Sep 07   In the year 1811 william Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887   

Sep 08   Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Sep 12   James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY) in the year 1811.   

Sep 15   Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer on this day in history.   

Sep 18   English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies in the year 1811.   

Sep 28   Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician in the year 1811.   

Sep 30   On this day in history thomas Percy, English bishop of Dromore, dies at 82   

Oct 06   On this day in history french emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht   

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874   

Jan 09   Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 03   Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") was born on this day in history.   

Feb 06   In the year 1811 birth of henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)   

Feb 08   Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883 was born in the year 1811.   

Feb 15   In the year 1811 birth of domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)   

Feb 23   On this day in history birth of george Washington Hewitt, composer   

Jan 08   Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 10   In the year 1811 death of marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)   

Feb 09   On this day in history nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies   

Mar 14   August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75 in the year 1811.   

Mar 19   In the year 1811 frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65   

Apr 03   In the year 1811 pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83   

Apr 05   Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies on this day in history.   

Apr 07   Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757) died in the year 1811.