
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1803 1804 1805 - 1806 - 1807 1808 1809 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a United Kingdom colony * January 10 - Netherlands in Cape Town surrender to the United Kingdom * 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 Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden . * 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, Holy Roman Emperor, 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 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) *October 9 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor of Washington DC (b. 1731) *Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771) 1806 os:1806 simple:1806
I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 10:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1803 1804 1805 - 1806 - 1807 1808 1809 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a United Kingdom colony * January 10 - Netherlands in Cape Town surrender to the United Kingdom * 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 Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden . * 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, Holy Roman Emperor, 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 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) *October 9 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor of Washington DC (b. 1731) *Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771) 1806 os:1806 simple:1806
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I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 10:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
1806
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