1806 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1806?
- January 1, 1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
- January 8, 1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- January 9, 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
- January 10, 1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- January 19, 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
- January 30, 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
- February 6, 1806 – Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
- March 23, 1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their “Corps of Discovery” begin their arduous journey home.
- May 30, 1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
- June 27, 1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
- July 12, 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
- July 15, 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
- August 6, 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- August 13, 1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
- September 2, 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- October 9, 1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
- October 14, 1806 – Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
- October 17, 1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
- November 15, 1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
- December 26, 1806 – Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: July 7, 1806
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
Share or Link to This Page: