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Years:
1803
1804
1805
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1806
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1807
1808
1809
Decades
:
1770s
1780s
1790s
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1800s
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1810s
1820s
1830s
Centuries
:
18th century
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19th century
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20th century
1806
was a
common year starting on Wednesday
(see link for calendar).
Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
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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