1711

This article is about the year 1711.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1708 1709 1710 – 1711 – 1712 1713 1714

1711 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1711 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1711 MDCCXI
Ab urbe condita	2464
Armenian calendar	1160 ԹՎ ՌՃԿ
Assyrian calendar	6461
Bahá'í calendar	-133–-132
Bengali calendar	1118
Berber calendar	2661
British Regnal year	9 Ann. 1 – 10 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar	2255
Burmese calendar	1073
Byzantine calendar	7219–7220
Chinese calendar	庚寅年十一月十三日 (4347/4407-11-13) — to — 辛卯年十一月廿二日 (4348/4408-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1427–1428
Ethiopian calendar	1703–1704
Hebrew calendar	5471–5472
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1767–1768
- Shaka Samvat	1633–1634
- Kali Yuga	4812–4813
Holocene calendar	11711
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	711–712
Iranian calendar	1089–1090
Islamic calendar	1122–1123
Japanese calendar	Hōei 8Shōtoku 1 (正徳元年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4044
Minguo calendar	201 before ROC 民前201年
Thai solar calendar	2254

Events

January: North Carolina.

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 – 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 (the first Mardi Gras parade in America).
• February 24
  • 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.
  • London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.

July–December

• July 21 – Treaty of the Pruth
• 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, 2 African American slaves and 2 Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern, and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River (this event has also been dated September 12, 1711).
• September 14 – Tuscarora natives capture John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried and their expeditionary party and bring them to Catechna (approximate date).
• September 16 – Tuscarora natives kill John Lawson. Christoph von Graffenried and one African American slave are known to have been set free (approximate date).
• 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, becoming Emperor of Ethiopia.

Date unknown

• Alexander Pope publishes An Essay on Criticism.
• John Shore invents the tuning fork.
• South Sea Company founded.

Births

• January 1 – Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
• February 2 – Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
• February 27 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
• April 22 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
• April 26 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (d. 1776)
• May 18 – Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Austrian-born atomic theorist (d. 1787)
• July 22 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
• September 1 – William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
• September 1 – Prince William IV of Orange (d. 1751)
• September 6 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
• September 25 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
• October 20 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
• November 19 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
• December 25 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (d. 1772)

Deaths

• January 6 – Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• January 16 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
• March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
• March 15 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
• March 19 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
• April 14 – Louis, le Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV of France (b. 1661)
• April 17 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
• May 2 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
• June 7 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
• July 6 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (b. 1662)
• August 25 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician (b. c. 1656)
• October 14 – Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia
• November 3 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)

Date unknown

• Friedrich Breckling, Swiss mystic (b. 1629).