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January 8: Battle of Blaauwberg 1806 (MDCCCVI) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1806th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
806th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 6th year of the 19th century,
and the 7th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1806,
the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – The French
Republican Calendar is abolished. ·
January 1 – The Kingdom of Bavaria is
established by Napoleon. ·
January 5 – The body of Horatio
Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall
of the Greenwich Hospital, prior to his funeral. ·
January 8 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony after the defeat of Dutch at
the Battle of Blaauwberg. ·
January 9 – Lord
Nelson is given a state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral,
attended by the
Prince of Wales.[1] ·
January 10 – The Dutch in Cape Town surrender to
British forces. ·
January 19 – The British occupy
the Cape of Good Hope. ·
January 23 – Grenville succeeds William Pitt the
Younger as wartime Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, upon Pitt's death this day amidst
worsening health, caused by the stresses of the Napoleonic Wars. ·
February 6 – The Royal Navy gains a victory off Santo Domingo. ·
March 23 – After traveling through
the Louisiana Purchase and
reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clarkand their Corps of Discovery begin
their journey home. ·
March 28 – Washington College
(now Washington
& Jefferson College) is chartered by the Pennsylvania
General Assembly.[2] ·
March 29 – Construction is authorized
of the National Road (the
first United States federal highway). April–June[edit] ·
April 8 – Stéphanie de
Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte,
marries 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, replacing
the Batavian Republic. July–September[edit] ·
July 4 ·
Battle of Maida: Britain defeats
the French in Calabria. ·
The
legendary ship The Irish Rover sets
sail from the Cove of Cork, Ireland for New York. ·
July 10 – Vellore Mutiny: Indian sepoys mutiny against the East India Company,
for the first time. ·
July 12 – Sixteen German Imperial States leave the Holy Roman Empire and
form the Confederation
of the Rhine; Liechtenstein is given full
sovereignty, leading to the collapse of the Empire after 844 years. ·
July 15 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri,
United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition
from Fort Bellefontaine,
to explore the American West. ·
July 18 – A gunpowder
magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta kills
around 200 people. ·
July 23 – A British
expeditionary force of 1,700 men lands on the left bank of
the Río de la Plata,
and invades Buenos Aires. ·
August 6 – Francis II,
the last Holy Roman Emperor,
abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire after
about a millennium. ·
August 18 – English seal hunter Abraham Bristow discovers the Auckland Islands.[3][4] ·
September 23 – The Lewis and
Clark Expedition reaches St. Louis, Missouri,
ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and
the Pacific Northwest.
According to one historian, their arrival comes "much to the amazement
of residents, who had given the travelers up for dead."[5] ·
September 25 – Prussia issues
an ultimatum to Paris, threatening war if France doesn't halt marching its
troops through Prussian territory to reach Austria; the message does not
reach Napoleon Bonaparte until October 7, and he responds by attacking
Prussia.[6] October–December[edit] ·
October 8 – Napoleon responds to the
September 25 ultimatum from Prussia,
and begins the War of the
Fourth Coalition; Prussia is joined by Saxony and
other minor German
states.[6] ·
October 9 – Battle of Schleiz:
French and Prussian forces fight for the first time since the war began. The
Prussian army is easily defeated, by a more numerous French force. ·
October 14 – Battle of
Jena–Auerstedt: Napoleon defeats the Prussian army
of Prince Hohenlohe at Jena,
while Marshal Davout defeats
the main Prussian army under Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who is killed. ·
October 17 – Emperor Jacques I of Haiti
(Jean-Jacques
Dessalines) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge, Haiti, and Alexandre Pétion becomes
first President of the Republic of Haiti. ·
October 24 – French forces enter
Berlin. ·
October 30 – Capitulation of
Stettin: Believing themselves massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man
garrison at Stettin in Prussia
surrenders to a much smaller French force without a fight. ·
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 (later
named Pikes Peak in
his honor). ·
November 21 – Napoleon declares the Continental Blockade against
the British, blocking the import of British manufactured goods to the rest of
Europe.[7] ·
November 24 – The last major Prussian
field force, under Gebhard Leberecht
von Blücher, surrenders to the French near Lübeck. Frederick
William III has by this time fled to Russia. ·
November 28 – French troops enter Warsaw. ·
December 26 – War of the
Fourth Coalition – ·
Battle of
Pułtusk: 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. Date unknown[edit] ·
Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary.
The Elgin Marbles are removed from
the Parthenon. ·
Thomas
Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, removes the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens. ·
Annual
British iron production reaches 260,000 tons. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – Lionel Kieseritzky,
Baltic-German chess player (d. 1853) ·
January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo
Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826) ·
February 10 – Emma Catherine
Embury, American author and poet (d. 1863) ·
February 22 – Józef Kremer, Polish messianic philosopher
(d. 1875) ·
March 4 ·
Ephraim Wales Bull,
American farmer, creator of the Concord grape (d. 1895) ·
George Bradburn, American abolitionist,
women's rights advocate (d. 1880) ·
March 6 – Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861) ·
March 11 – Carlo Pellion di
Persano, Italian admiral, politician (d. 1883) ·
March 12 – Jane Pierce, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1863) ·
March 21 – Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman, folk hero
(d. 1872) ·
April 3 – Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian literary critic,
philosopher (d. 1856) ·
April 6 – Friedrich
Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (d. 1876) ·
April 9 – Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859) ·
May 2 – Catherine Labouré,
French visionary, saint (d. 1876) ·
May 4 – William
Fothergill Cooke, English inventor (d. 1879) ·
May 20 – John Stuart Mill, British philosopher
(d. 1873) ·
June 12 – John Augustus
Roebling, German-American engineer (d. 1869) ·
June 27 – Augustus De Morgan,
British mathematician, logician (d. 1871) July–December[edit]
·
July 5 – James Dawson,
Aboriginal Guardian (d. 1900) ·
July 5 – Blanka Teleki, Hungarian countess, women's
rights activist (d. 1862) ·
September 12 – Andrew Hull Foote,
American admiral (d. 1863) ·
October 3 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader
(d. 1850) ·
October 25 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856) ·
November 13 – Emilia Plater, Polish heroine (d. 1831) ·
December 11 – Otto
Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (d. 1886) Date unknown[edit] ·
Edward Welch, Welsh architect (d. 1868) ·
Anne Clarke,
Australian theater manager Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 8 – Magdalena
Dávalos y Maldonado, Ecuadorian scholar, socialite (b. 1725) ·
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 16 – Franz von Weyrother,
Austrian general (b. 1755) ·
February 19 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)[8] ·
February 20 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American
military and political leader (b. 1725) ·
March 20 – Salomea Deszner, Polish actress, singer and
theater director (b. 1759) ·
March 23 – George Pinto English composer (b. 1785) ·
March 30 – Georgiana
Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (b. 1757) ·
April 9 – William V,
Prince of Orange (b. 1748) ·
April 10 – Horatio Gates, retired British soldier who
served as an American general during the American
Revolutionary War (b. 1727) ·
April 22 – Pierre-Charles
Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763) ·
May 9 – Robert Morris
(financier), financier of the American Revolution (b. 1734) ·
May 24 – John
Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723) ·
June 23 – Mathurin Jacques
Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723) ·
June 30 – Charles
Dickinson, American attorney, famous duelist (killed in a duel
by Andrew Jackson)
(b. 1780) July–December[edit]
·
July 4 – Charles Henri Sanson,
Royal Executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI (b. 1739) ·
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, surveyor (b. 1731) ·
October 10 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (killed in
battle) (b. 1772) ·
October 25 – Henry Knox, Secretary of War under George Washington (b. 1750) ·
November 23 – Roger Newdigate, British politician
(b. 1719) ·
December 22 – William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) Date unknown[edit] ·
Mungo Park,
Scottish explorer (b. 1771) ·
Johann Gottfried
Arnold, German cellist (b. 1773) References[edit] 1.
^ Hibbert, Christopher Nelson: A Personal History (1994)
p. 382 2.
^ Coleman, Helen Turnbull Waite (1956). Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of
Washington and Jefferson College. University
of Pittsburgh Press. p. 210. OCLC 2191890. 3.
^ "Auckland Islands", in Exploring Polar
Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. by William J. Mills (ABC-CLIO,
2003) p39 4.
^ Jones, A. G. E. (1970). "Captain Abraham Bristow and the Auckland
Islands" (PDF). Notes and Queries. 17 (10):
369–371. doi:10.1093/nq/17.10.369.
Retrieved 2011-12-14. 5.
^ Lee Ann Sandweiss, Seeking St. Louis: Voices
from a River City, 1670-2000 (Missouri History Museum, 2000) p41 6.
^ Jump up to:a b F.
Loraine Petre, Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia - 1806 (John
Lane Company, 1907) pxv 7.
^ "Napoleon's Continental Blockade— An Effective
Substitute to Naval Weakness?" by Silvia Marzagali, in Naval
Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005 ed.
by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine (Routledge, 2007) p25 8.
^ "Elizabeth Carter - British author". Encyclopedia
Britannica. Retrieved 3 January 2017. |
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