Page 4: Historical Events In 1811

Oct 07   August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68 in the year 1811.   

Oct 11   The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation in the year 1811.   

Oct 11   The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation on this day in history.   

Oct 16   On this day in history gaetano Capocci, composer   

Oct 17   Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich) in the year 1811.   

Oct 18   Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 on this day in history.   

Oct 22   In the year 1811 franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist   

Oct 22   In the year 1811 the birth of Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer   

Oct 24   Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor on this day in history.   

Oct 27   In the year 1811 issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)   

Oct 29   1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans in the year 1811.   

Oct 29   The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans on this day in history.   

Nov 05   El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence on this day in history.   

Nov 05   In the year 1811 el Salvador's first battle against Spain for independence   

Nov 07   In the year 1811 battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation   

Nov 07   Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet) in the year 1811.   

Nov 08   Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47 in the year 1811.   

Nov 10   On this day in history louis Kufferath, composer   

Nov 11   Ben McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 in the year 1811.   

Nov 11   Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain in the year 1811.   

Nov 13   On this day in history yuri Arnold, composer   

Nov 19   On this day in history john Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873   

Nov 21   Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 in the year 1811.   

Nov 24   Ditler G Monrad, Danish theologist/bishop/premier (1863- ) on this day in history.   

Nov 28   Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64) on this day in history.   

Nov 29   Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer on this day in history.   

Dec 07   In the year 1811 ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54   

Dec 08   On this day in history louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer   

Dec 16   Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri, causing widespread damage in the year 1811.   

Dec 16   On this day in history most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region   

Dec 17   John Antes, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Dec 18   Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868 on this day in history.   

Dec 25   On this day in history wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz   

Dec 26   On this day in history 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.   

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Jan 05   In the year 1811 birth of cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)   

Jan 06   In the year 1811 birth of charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)   

Feb 03   In the year 1811 birth of horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")   

Feb 06   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)   

Feb 23   George Washington Hewitt, composer was born in the year 1811.   

Jan 08   Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies in the year 1811.   

Jan 10   On this day in history death of marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)   

Feb 09   Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies in the year 1811.   

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

Mar 19   On this day in history frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65   

Apr 03   On this day in history pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83   

Apr 05   In the year 1811 robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies   

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