1806
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| Years: 1803 1804 1805 - 1806 - 1807 1808 1809 | |
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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
- 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, composer
- March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (d. 1861)
- March 12 - Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States
- March 21 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (d. 1872)
- April 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer.
- May 20 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher.
- June 28 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist, composer
- December 11 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich. German geologist
Deaths
- January 23 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- February 11 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer.
- July 10 - George Stubbs, painter (b. 1724)
- August 22 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter
- October 9 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor of Washington DC
- Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of the African continent.
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