Today in History for Year 1806

Months in Year 1806: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 30 of 30

Jan 8th - Cape colony becomes English colony
Jan 8th - Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
Jan 9th - Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
Jan 10th - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
Jan 12th - French evacuate Vienna
Jan 19th - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
Jan 30th - Prussia takes possession of Hanover
Jan 30th - 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.
Mar 29th - Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
Apr 5th - Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
May 30th - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
Jun 5th - 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
Jun 5th - Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
Jun 24th - English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
Jun 27th - Buenos Aires captured by British
Jul 3rd - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
Jul 10th - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
Jul 15th - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
Aug 6th - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
US President & General Andrew Jackson Sep 2nd - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
Sep 23rd - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
Oct 7th - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
Oct 8th - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
Oct 9th - Prussia declares war on France.
Oct 14th - Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
Oct 17th - Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule.
Oct 27th - The French Army enters in Berlin.
Nov 15th - 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
Nov 15th - Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
Nov 21st - Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 67 of 67

Jan 3rd - Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
Jan 5th - Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium)
Jan 14th - Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander (Confederacy)
Jan 14th - Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
Jan 17th - James Madison Randolph, (Jefferson's grandson) 1st born in White House
Jan 19th - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer
Jan 20th - Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
Jan 25th - Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
Jan 27th - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
Feb 14th - Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
Feb 22nd - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
Mar 6th - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Coxhoe Hall England, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
Mar 9th - Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
Mar 12th - Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
Mar 16th - Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
Mar 21st - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
Mar 26th - Josef Slavik, composer
Mar 28th - Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1861-66)
Mar 28th - Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
Apr 2nd - Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal/asst sec of state for Pius IX
Apr 3rd - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
Apr 9th - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
Apr 10th - Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Apr 18th - Ludwig Schuberth, composer
Apr 21st - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter
Apr 26th - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
Apr 27th - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
Apr 29th - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher
May 6th - Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
May 8th - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer
May 12th - Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
May 12th - J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
May 16th - George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
May 20th - John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
May 26th - Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
May 27th - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer
Jun 1st - John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
Jun 2nd - Isaac Strauss, composer
Jun 8th - Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
Jun 12th - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
Jun 13th - Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian
Jun 16th - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
Jun 28th - Napoleon Coste, composer
Jul 7th - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
Jul 20th - John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian)
Jul 23rd - Eduard Marxsen, composer
Aug 21st - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
Sep 5th - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
Sep 11th - Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Sep 12th - Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1863
Sep 13th - Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1862
Sep 13th - Moritz Ganz, composer
Sep 24th - George Alexander Osborne, composer
Oct 3rd - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
Oct 6th - Andreas Randel, composer
Oct 11th - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58)
Oct 14th - Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
Oct 16th - William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
Oct 17th - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
Oct 18th - John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Oct 25th - Max Stirner, [Johann C Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige)
Nov 24th - Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor/viceroy of Bosnia/Iraq
Nov 24th - William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
Dec 3rd - Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Dec 6th - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer
Dec 9th - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
Dec 12th - Stand Watie, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Oct 14th - German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 23rd - William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46
Feb 11th - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51
Feb 19th - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
Feb 20th - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
Feb 23rd - John Alcock, composer, dies at 90
Feb 24th - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
Mar 16th - Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74
Mar 17th - David Dale, industrialist & philanthropist, dies
Mar 23rd - George Frederic Pinto, composer, dies at 20
Apr 4th - Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84
Apr 9th - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic dies at 58
Apr 13th - Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82
Apr 22nd - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
May 24th - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
Jun 8th - George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79
Jun 23rd - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
Jun 28th - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer, dies at 64
Jul 10th - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
Jul 11th - James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
Aug 9th - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33
Aug 10th - Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68
Aug 22nd - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
Aug 23rd - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
Sep 9th - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
Sep 10th - Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
Sep 12th - Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58
Sep 13th - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
Sep 18th - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
Sep 20th - Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
Oct 9th - Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
Oct 17th - Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
Oct 23rd - Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58
Oct 26th - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
Oct 28th - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
Oct 31st - Sophie Mereau, writer, dies at 36
Nov 16th - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
Dec 22nd - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)