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.
- 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.
- March 29, 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
- June 27, 1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
- July 10, 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 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 12, 1806 – Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
- September 2, 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- September 23, 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- October 8, 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
- October 27, 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
- 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.
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