1806

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –   1810s   1820s   1830s
Years:	1803 1804 1805 – 1806 – 1807 1808 1809

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

• January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
• January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.
• January 19 - The British occupy 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 National Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

April - June

• April 8 - Marriage of Stephanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, to 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.

July - September

• July 4 - Battle of Maida between Britain and France in Calabria.
• July 10 - Vellore Mutiny: the first instance of a mutiny by the Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
• 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.
• September - Prussia declares war on France, and is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.
• 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

• 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.
• October 19 - Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Jean-Jacques Dessalines) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge Haiti.
• October 24 - French forces enter Berlin.
• 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 honour).
• November 24 - The last major Prussian field force, under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, surrenders to the French near Lübeck. The Frederick William III has by this time fled to Russia.
• November 30 - Napoleon captures Warsaw.
• 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.
• Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.

Births

1806 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1806 MDCCCVI
Ab urbe condita	2559
Armenian calendar	1255 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6556
Bahá'í calendar	-38–-37
Bengali calendar	1213
Berber calendar	2756
British Regnal year	46 Geo. 3 – 47 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2350
Burmese calendar	1168
Byzantine calendar	7314–7315
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十一月十二日 (4442/4502-11-12) — to — 丙寅年十一月廿二日 (4443/4503-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1522–1523
Ethiopian calendar	1798–1799
Hebrew calendar	5566–5567
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1862–1863
- Shaka Samvat	1728–1729
- Kali Yuga	4907–4908
Holocene calendar	11806
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	806–807
Iranian calendar	1184–1185
Islamic calendar	1220–1221
Japanese calendar	Bunka 3 (文化3年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4139
Minguo calendar	106 before ROC 民前106年
Thai solar calendar	2349

• January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
• February 22 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianic philosopher (d. 1875)
• 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 3 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
• April 6 - Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (d. 1876)
• April 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
• May 20 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d. 1873)
• June 12 - John Augustus Roebling, German-born architect (d. 1869)
• June 28 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
• July 5 - James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (d. 1900)
• 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 16 - Franz von Weyrother, Austrian general (b. 1755)
• February 19 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
• February 20 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
• March 23 - George Pinto English composer (b. 1785)
• April 9 - William V of Orange (b. 1748)
• April 22 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
• May 24 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
• June 23 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
• 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-Honouré 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 and surveyor (b. 1731)
• October 10 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (killed in battle) (b. 1772)
• October 25 - Henry Knox, Secretary of State under George Washington
• November 23 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
• December 22 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
• date unknown - Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771)