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1806

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

Years: 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 - 1806 - 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of State

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
• 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.
• 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 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).

Year in topic

• 1806 in literature
• 1806 in music
• 1806 in science

Births

• March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (+ 1861)
• March 12 - Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States
• March 21 - Benito Juarez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (+ 1872)
• April 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer.
• May 20 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher.
• December 11 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich. German geologist

Deaths

• January 23 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• February 11 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer.
• July 10 - George Stubbs, painter
• Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of the African continent.

Heads of State

• China - Jiaqing Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from February 9, 1796 to September 2, 1820)
• United States - Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1809)

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