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1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

1806 - 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.
June 5 - Louis Bonaparte is appointed as king of Holland by his brother emperor Napoleon.
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.

1806 - Ongoing events

Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Fourth Coalition

1806 - 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)

1806 - 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 19 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
February 20 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
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 11 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
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)
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)
December 22 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771)