EVENT INFORMATION

19
Mei
1799

Authorities stop the planned Maracaibo uprising

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📅 19 Mei 1799 📍 Venezuela

The intended date for the Maracaibo rising arrived, but the plot was thwarted before the plan could be carried out. The account describes Pirela confessing hours before the expected start, followed by arrests; 68 people were imprisoned, and Pirela was sentenced to ten years’ confinement. A Black man named José Francisco Suárez, whom the historical account identifies as enslaved, was also implicated. Because much of the surviving evidence comes through Spanish investigations, the conspirators’ own collective aims and the degree of local support remain uncertain. The event is recorded as a suppressed attempt, not a completed revolt.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Francisco Javier Pirela

José Francisco Suárez

Juan and Agustín Bocé

Maracaibo conspirators

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish colonial government

Maracaibo militia

French privateer crews