1806
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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 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)
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