From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calendar year
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
1806 .
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.
Calendar year
January 8 :
Battle of Blaauwberg
October 14 :
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
October 27 .
Entry of Napoleon into Berlin . French troops enter Berlin following Jena.
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
July 4
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 , leading to the collapse of the Empire after 844 years.
Liechtenstein is given full sovereignty.
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 –
1806 Birgu polverista explosion : A gunpowder magazine explosion in
Birgu ,
Malta kills around 200 people.
July 23 –
British invasions of the River Plate : 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 .
[5]
[6]
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."
[7]
September 25 –
Prussia issues an ultimatum to Paris, threatening war if France does not 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.
[8]
October–December
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 .
[8]
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 20 – British
ship of the line
HMS Athenienne (1800) is wrecked in the
Strait of Sicily with the loss of 347 of the 488 on board.
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.
[9]
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 23 –
Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his
violin concerto at the
Theater an der Wien .
December 26 –
War of the Fourth Coalition :
Date unknown
Births
January–June
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Emma Catherine Embury
J. V. Snellman
John Stuart Mill
January 1 –
Lionel Kieseritzky , Baltic-German chess player (d. 1853)
January 27 –
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga , Spanish composer (d. 1826)
February 22 –
Józef Kremer , Polish messianic philosopher (d. 1875)
March 4
March 6 –
Elizabeth Barrett Browning , English poet (d.
1861 )
[11]
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 12 –
J. V. Snellman , Finnish statesman and influential
Fennoman philosopher (d. 1881)
[12]
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
Max Stirner
Emilia Plater
July 5
James Dawson , Scottish-born Australian settler, champion of aboriginal interests (d. 1900)
Blanka Teleki , Hungarian countess, women's rights activist (d. 1862)
September 12 –
Andrew Hull Foote , American admiral (d. 1863)
September 22 –
Bernardino António Gomes , Portuguese physician and naturalist (d. 1877)
October 3 –
Oliver Cowdery , American religious leader (d. 1850)
October 25 –
Max Stirner , German philosopher (d. 1856)
November 10 –
Sir Alexander Milne , British admiral (d. 1896)
November 13 –
Emilia Plater , Polish heroine (d. 1831)
December 11 –
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich , German geologist (d. 1886)
Deaths
January–June
William Pitt the Younger
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)
[13]
February 2 –
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne , French writer (b. 1734)
[14]
February 16 –
Franz von Weyrother , Austrian general (b. 1755)
February 19 –
Elizabeth Carter , English writer (b. 1717)
[15]
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 , English noblewoman, socialite, political organizer, style icon, author and activist (b. 1757)
April 9 –
William V, Prince of Orange , last
Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (b. 1748)
April 10 –
Horatio Gates , British soldier, 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 , English-born merchant, one of the
Founding Fathers of the United States , "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
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Benjamin Banneker
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
July 17 –
Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet , British politician (b. 1752)
August 10 –
Michael Haydn , Austrian composer and brother of
Joseph Haydn (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)
September 13 –
Charles James Fox , English politician (b. 1749)
September 30 –
William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont , Irish politician (b. 1722)
October 9 –
Benjamin Banneker , American astronomer, surveyor (b. 1731)
October 10 –
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia , German prince (killed in battle) (b. 1772)
October 23 –
Timothy Dexter , American businessman (b. 1748)
October 25 –
Henry Knox , Secretary of War under
George Washington (b. 1750)
October 26 –
John Graves Simcoe , first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
November 10 –
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (b. 1735)
November 23 –
Roger Newdigate , British politician (b.
1719 )
[16]
December 9 –
Josef Georg Hörl , Austrian politician (b.
1722 )
December 22 –
William Vernon , American merchant (b.
1719 )
Date unknown
References
^
Hibbert, Christopher (1994). Nelson: A Personal History . p. 382.
^ Davis, John (2006).
Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780–1860 . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780198207559 .
^
a
b Abbott, John S. C. (1869). A History of Joseph, King of Naples . New York: Harper.
^ 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 .
^ "Auckland Islands", in Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia , ed. by William J. Mills (ABC-CLIO, 2003) p39
^ Jones, A. G. E. (1970). "Captain Abraham Bristow and the Auckland Islands".
Notes and Queries . 17 (10): 369–371.
doi :
10.1093/nq/17-10-369 .
^ Sandweiss, Lee Ann (2000). Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670–2000 . Missouri History Museum. p. 41.
^
a
b Petre, F. Loraine (1907). Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia – 1806 . John Lane Company. p. xv.
^ Marzagali, Silvia (2007). "Napoleon's Continental Blockade – An Effective Substitute to Naval Weakness?". In Elleman, Bruce A.; Paine, S. C. M. (eds.). Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005 . London: Routledge. p. 25.
ISBN
9786611158309 .
^
"History" . Colgate-Palmolive. Retrieved December 5, 2020 .
^
Sampson, Fiona (2021). Two Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Profile Books, p 33
^
Johan Vilhelm Snellman at the
Encyclopædia Britannica
^
"History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK" . www.gov.uk . Retrieved July 1, 2023 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Restif, Nicolas Edme ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 200.
^
"Elizabeth Carter - British author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
^
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Newdigate, Sir Roger" .
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.