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1806 (MDCCCVI ) was acommon year starting on Wednesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1806th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 6th year of the19th century , and the 7th year of the1800s 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.
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January 8 :Battle of Blaauwberg October 14 :Battle of Jena–Auerstedt July 4 July 10 –Vellore Mutiny :Indian sepoys mutiny against theEast India Company , for the first time.July 12 – Sixteen GermanImperial States leave theHoly Roman Empire and form theConfederation of the Rhine , leading to the collapse of the Empire.Liechtenstein is given full sovereignty.July 15 –Pike Expedition : NearSt. Louis, Missouri , United States Army LieutenantZebulon Pike leads an expedition fromFort Bellefontaine , to explore the American West.July 18 –1806 Birgu polverista explosion : A gunpowder magazine explosion inBirgu ,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 theRío de la Plata and invadesBuenos Aires .August 6 –Francis II , the lastHoly Roman Emperor , abdicates, thus ending theHoly Roman Empire after 844 years.August 18 – Englishseal hunter Abraham Bristow discovers theAuckland Islands .[ 5] [ 6] September 23 – TheLewis and Clark Expedition reachesSt. Louis, Missouri , ending a successful exploration of theLouisiana Territory and thePacific 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 8 – Napoleon responds to the September 25 ultimatum fromPrussia , and begins theWar of the Fourth Coalition ; Prussia is joined bySaxony and other minorGerman 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 ofPrince Hohenlohe atJena , whileMarshal Davout defeats the main Prussian army underCharles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel atAuerstedt , laterCharles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel would die.October 17 – Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Jean-Jacques Dessalines ) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge,Haiti , andAlexandre Pétion becomes first President of the Republic of Haiti.October 20 – Britishship of the line HMS Athenienne (1800) is wrecked in theStrait of Sicily with the loss of 347 of the 488 on board.October 24 –French forces enter Berlin .October 30 –Capitulation of Stettin : Believing themselves massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man garrison atStettin in Prussia surrenders to a much smaller French force without a fight.November 15 –Pike Expedition : During his second exploratory expedition, LieutenantZebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near theColorado foothills of theRocky Mountains (later namedPikes Peak in his honor).November 21 –Napoleon declares theContinental 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, underGebhard Leberecht von Blücher , surrenders to the French nearLübeck .Frederick William III has by this time fled toMemel in East Prussia.November 28 – French troops enterWarsaw .December 23 –Ludwig van Beethoven premieres hisviolin concerto at theTheater an der Wien .December 26 –War of the Fourth Coalition :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 influentialFennoman 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)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)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 , lastStadtholder of the Dutch Republic (b. 1748)April 10 –Horatio Gates , British soldier, served as an American general during theAmerican Revolutionary War (b. 1727)April 22 –Pierre-Charles Villeneuve , French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)May 9 –Robert Morris , English-born merchant, one of theFounding Fathers of the United States , "financier of theAmerican 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 byAndrew Jackson ) (b. 1780)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 theUnited States Declaration of Independence July 17 –Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet , British politician (b. 1752)August 10 –Michael Haydn , Austrian composer and brother ofJoseph 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 theUnited 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 underGeorge 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 )^ Hibbert, Christopher (1994).Nelson: A Personal History . p. 382.^ Davis, John (2006).Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780–1860 ISBN 9780198207559 ^a b Abbott, John S. 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