EVENT INFORMATION

8
Mei
1799

Authorities expose Francisco Javier Pirela’s Maracaibo plot

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📅 8 Mei 1799 📍 Venezuela

Colonial officials uncovered a plot involving Francisco Javier Pirela, a pardo militia sublieutenant, and French privateers from Saint-Domingue. Historical accounts describe a planned uprising for 19 May that aimed to overthrow Spanish authority and establish a republic. The 8 May chronology entry records the plot’s exposure, not a successful uprising. Spanish archival descriptions often used racialized labels such as “negros” and “mulatos”; those terms reflect the colonial record and should not be treated as neutral descriptions of the participants’ identities or politics.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Francisco Javier Pirela

Juan and Agustín Bocé

Black and mixed-race crew members

Maracaibo residents

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Maracaibo militia

French privateer crews

Spanish colonial government