1806

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Year '1806' ('MDCCCVI') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1806

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1806

January - March

★ January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

★ January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.

★ January 19 - The British occupy the Cape of Good Hope.

★ February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806.

★ March 23 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their journey home.

★ March 29 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

April - June

★ April 8 - Marriage of Stephanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich of Baden.

★ May 30 - Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.

★ June 5 - Louis Bonaparte is appointed as king of Holland by his brother emperor Napoleon.

July - September

★ July 4 - Battle of Maida between Britain and France in Calabria.

★ July 10 - Vellore Mutiny: the first instance of a mutiny by the Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

★ July 15 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.

★ August 6 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.

★ September - Prussia declares war on France, and is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.

★ September 23 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches St. Louis, Missouri, ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest.

October - December

★ October 14 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt - Napoleon defeats the Prussian army of Prince Hohenlohe at Jena while Marshal Davout defeats the main Prussian army under the Duke of Brunswick, who is killed.

★ October 19 - Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Jean-Jacques Dessalines) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge Haiti.

★ October 24 - French forces enter Berlin.

★ November - Napoleon declares a Continental Blockade against the British.

★ November 15 - Pike expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak in his honor).

★ November 24 - The last major Prussian field force, under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, surrenders to the French near Lübeck. The king of Prussia has by this time fled to Russia.

★ November 30 - Napoleon captures Warsaw.

★ December 26 - 1806 Battles of Pultusk and Golymin. Battle of Pultusk: Russian forces under General Bennigsen narrowly escape from a direct confrontation with Napoleon, who goes into winter quarters; Battle of Golymin: Russian forces under General Golitsyn fight a successful rearguard action against French forces under Marshall Murat.

★ Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary.


★ Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, removes the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens.

Ongoing events

★ Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) - Fourth Coalition.

★ Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.

Births

★ January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)

★ February 22 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)

★ March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)

★ March 12 - Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)

★ March 21 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (d. 1872)

★ April 3 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)

★ April 6 - Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (d. 1876)

★ April 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)

★ May 20 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d. 1873)

★ June 12 - John Augustus Roebling, German-born architect (d. 1869)

★ June 28 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)

★ July 5 - James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (d. 1900)

★ October 3 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)

★ December 11 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (d. 1886)
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Deaths

★ January 23 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)

★ February 2 - Rétif de la Bretonne, French writer (b. 1734)

★ February 19 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)

★ February 20 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)

★ March 23 - George Pinto English composer (b. 1785)

★ April 9 - William V of Orange (b. 1748)

★ April 22 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)

★ May 24 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)

★ June 23 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)

★ July 10 - George Stubbs, English painter (b. 1724)

★ July 11 - James Smith, American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

★ August 10 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)

★ August 22 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b. 1742)

★ August 23 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)

★ September 9 - William Paterson, Signer of the United States Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)

★ October 9 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)

★ October 10 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)

★ October 25 - Henry Knox, Secretary of State under George Washington

★ November 23 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)

★ December 22 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)

★ ''date unknown'' - Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771)
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