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1806 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
- January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony
- January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British
- January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape Of Good Hope
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- 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 8 - Marriage of Stephanie De Beauharnais to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich .
- June 5 - Louis Bonaparte is appointed as King Of Holland by his brother emperor Napoleon .
- July 4 - Battle Of Maida between England and France in Calabria
- , 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.
- 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 24 - French forces enter Berlin.
- November - Napoleon declares a Continental Blockade against the British
- 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 - Battle Of Pultusk . Russian forces under General Bennigsen narrowly escape from a direct confrontation with Napoleon, who goes into winter quarters.
- Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga , Spanish composer (d. 1826 )
- 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 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel , British engineer (d. 1859 )
- May 20 - John Stuart Mill , British philosopher (d. 1873 )
- 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 )
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 )
- 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 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 )
- December 22 - William Vernon , American merchant (b. 1719 )
- Mungo Park , Scottish explorer (b. 1771 )
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