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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).
Events of 1806
January - March
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January 8 -
Cape Colony becomes a
British colony.
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January 10 -
Dutch in
Cape Town surrender to the
British.
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January 19 - The
British occupy the
Cape of Good Hope.
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February 6 -
Royal Navy victory off
Santo Domingo - see:
Action of 6 February 1806.
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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.
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March 29 - Construction authorized of the
Great National Pike, better known as the
Cumberland Road, becoming the first
United States federal highway.
April - June
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April 8 - Marriage of
Stephanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of
Napoleon Bonaparte, to
Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich of Baden.
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May 30 -
Andrew Jackson kills a man in a
duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of
bigamy.
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June 5 -
Louis Bonaparte is appointed as
king of Holland by his brother
emperor Napoleon.
July - September
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July 4 -
Battle of Maida between
Britain and
France in
Calabria.
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July 10 -
Vellore Mutiny: the first instance of a mutiny by the
Indian sepoys against the
British East India Company.
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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.
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August 6 -
Francis II, the last
Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the
Holy Roman Empire.
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September -
Prussia declares war on
France, and is joined by
Saxony and other minor
German states.
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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
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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.
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October 19 - Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Jean-Jacques Dessalines) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge
Haiti.
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October 24 -
French forces enter
Berlin.
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November -
Napoleon declares a
Continental Blockade against the
British.
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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).
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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.
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November 30 -
Napoleon captures
Warsaw.
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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.
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Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.
Births
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January 27 -
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d.
1826)
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February 22 -
Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d.
1875)
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March 6 -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d.
1861)
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March 12 -
Jane Pierce,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1863)
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March 21 -
Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (d.
1872)
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April 3 -
Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d.
1856)
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April 6 -
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (d.
1876)
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April 9 -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d.
1859)
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May 20 -
John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d.
1873)
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June 12 -
John Augustus Roebling, German-born architect (d.
1869)
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June 28 -
Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d.
1883)
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July 5 -
James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (d.
1900)
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October 3 -
Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d.
1850)
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December 11 -
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (d.
1886)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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January 23 -
William Pitt the Younger,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1759)
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February 2 -
Rétif de la Bretonne, French writer (b.
1734)
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February 19 -
Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b.
1717)
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February 20 -
Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b.
1725)
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March 23 -
George Pinto English composer (b.
1785)
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April 9 -
William V of Orange (b.
1748)
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April 22 -
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b.
1763)
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May 24 -
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b.
1723)
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June 23 -
Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b.
1723)
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July 10 -
George Stubbs, English painter (b.
1724)
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July 11 -
James Smith, American signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence
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August 10 -
Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b.
1737)
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August 22 -
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b.
1742)
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August 23 -
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b.
1736)
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September 9 -
William Paterson, Signer of the
United States Constitution,
Governor of New Jersey (b.
1745)
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October 9 -
Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b.
1731)
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October 10 -
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b.
1772)
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October 25 -
Henry Knox, Secretary of State under
George Washington
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November 23 -
Roger Newdigate, British politician (b.
1719)
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December 22 -
William Vernon, American merchant (b.
1719)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b.
1771)
: ''See also .''
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