1806

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18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n* January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony \n* January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British \n* January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope\n* 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.\n* March 29 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. \n* July 4 - Battle of Maida between England and France in Calabria\n* 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. \n* August 6 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. \n* October 14 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt\n* 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).

Ongoing events

\n* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Fourth Coalition

Births

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

Deaths

\n*January 23 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom\n*February 11 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer.\n*July 10 - George Stubbs, painter\n*August 22 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter\n*Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of the African continent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n