1806
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| Years: 1803 1804 1805 - 1806 - 1807 1808 1809 | |
| Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s | |
| Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century | |
1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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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
- 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 8 - Marriage of Stephanie de Beauharnais to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich.
- July 4 - Battle of Maida between England and France in Calabria
- 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.
- October 14 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt
- 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).
- Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary.
Ongoing events
- Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Fourth Coalition
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)
- 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 11 - Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer
- April 9 - William V of Orange (b. 1748)
- July 10 - George Stubbs, English painter (b. 1724)
- 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)
- October 9 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor of Washington DC (b. 1731)
- Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771)af:1806
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