1711
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| Years: | 1708 1709 1710 - 1711 - 1712 1713 1714 |
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Year 1711 (MDCCXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). Year 1711 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1711
[edit] January - June
- January - Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietors appoint Edward Hyde to replace Thomas Cary as the governor of the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina. Hyde's policies are deemed hostile to Quaker interests, leading former governor Cary and his Quaker allies to take up arms against the province.
- February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
- February - French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile (Alabama) by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart (first Mardi Gras parade in America).
- May 27 - Cary's Rebellion: Edward Hyde, Governor of the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina, leads a force across the Albemarle Sound to gather additional troops in order to capture former governor Thomas Cary.
- May 29 - Cary's Rebellion: Governor Edward Hyde's forces reach Thomas Cary's plantation and find it deserted. Cary's troops fortify a Colonel Daniels' plantation a few miles away. Hyde's forces march to Colonel Daniels' plantation but do not attack.
- June 1 - Cary's Rebellion: Hyde's forces return to Albemarle after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate Cary's surrender.
- June 30 - Cary's Rebellion: Former governor Thomas Cary, after declaring himself Governor of North Carolina, sails an armed brigantine up the Chowan River to attack Governor Hyde's forces fortified at Colonel Thomas Pollock's plantation. The attack fails and Cary's forces retreat.
[edit] July - December
- July - Cary's Rebellion: Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spottswood of Virginia dispatches a company of Royal marines to assist Governor Hyde. After hearing of this, Cary's troops abandon all of their fortifications along the Pamlico River. Cary and many of his supporters are soon caught and sent to England as prisoners, ending Cary's Rebellion.
- September 10 - John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried, two African American slaves and two Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River. This event has also been attributed to September 12, 1711.
- September 14 - Tuscarora natives capture John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried and their expeditionary party and bring them to Catechna. The date of this event is approximate.
- September 16 - Tuscarora natives kill John Lawson. Christoph von Graffenried and one African American slave were known to have been set free. The date of this event is approximate.
- September 22 - Tuscarora War: Tuscarora natives under the command of Chief Hancock raid settlements along the south bank of the Pamlico River within the Province of Carolina (present day North Carolina), killing around 130 people. This action begins the Tuscarora War.
- October 14 - Yostos kills Tewoflos, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
[edit] Undated
- John Shore invents the tuning fork.
- Alexander Pope publishes An Essay on Criticism.
[edit] Ongoing events
- Great Northern War (1700 - 1721).
- War of the Spanish Succession (1702 - 1713).
- Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715).
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1711 MDCCXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2464 |
| Armenian calendar | 1160 ԹՎ ՌՃԿ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -133 – -132 |
| Berber calendar | 2661 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2255 |
| Burmese calendar | 1073 |
| Chinese calendar | 4347/4407-11-13 (庚寅年十一月十三日) — to — 4348/4408-11-22(辛卯年十一月廿二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1427 – 1428 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1703 – 1704 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5471 – 5472 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1766 – 1767 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1633 – 1634 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4812 – 4813 |
| Holocene calendar | 11711 |
| Iranian calendar | 1089 – 1090 |
| Islamic calendar | 1122 – 1123 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōei 8Shōtoku 1 (正徳元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2371 (皇紀2371年) |
| Julian calendar | 1756 |
| Korean calendar | 4044 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2254 |
- January 1 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (died 1749)
- February 2 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (died 1794)
- February 27 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (died 1769)
- April 22 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (died 1779)
- May 7 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher (died 1776)
- May 18 - Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Austrian-born atomic theorist (died 1787)
- July 22 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (died 1753)
- September 1 - William Boyce, English composer (died 1779)
- September 1 - Prince William IV of Orange (died 1751)
- September 6 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (died 1787)
- September 25 - Qianlong Emperor of China (died 1799)
- October 20 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (died 1795)
- November 19 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765)
- December 25 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (died 1772)
- See also Category: 1711 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (born 1646)
- January 16 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (born 1651)
- March 13 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (born 1636)
- March 15 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (born 1645)
- March 19 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (born 1637)
- April 14 - Louis, le Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV of France, (born 1661)
- April 17 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1678)
- May 2 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (born 1641)
- June 7 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (born 1641)
- July 6 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (born 1662)
- August 25 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician (born c.1656)
- October 14 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia
- November 3 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (born 1666)
- Ki-Khosrow, Persian Governor of Kandahar (born 1674)
- See also Category: 1711 deaths.af:1711
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