1806 - What happened in 1806 ?

January 1806

Wednesday 08:

Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

Thursday 09:

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Friday 10:

Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.

Sunday 19:

The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.

February 1806

Thursday 06:

Action of 6 February 1806.

March 1806

Sunday 23:

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.

Saturday 29:

Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

May 1806

Friday 30:

Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.

June 1806

Friday 27:

The British capture Buenos Aires.

July 1806

Saturday 12:

Sixteen German imperial states left the Holy Roman Empire and formed the Confederation of the Rhine.

Tuesday 15:

Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.

August 1806

Wednesday 06:

Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.

September 1806

Tuesday 23:

Lewis and Clark return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

October 1806

Tuesday 07:

Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.

Tuesday 14:

Battle of Jena-Auerstädt

Friday 17:

Former leader of the Great Slave Rebellion of 1791, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule

November 1806

Saturday 15:

Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).

December 1806

Friday 26:

indecisive battle between Napoleon and the Russians