Notable Historical Events - 1806
1806 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 8 |
Cape colony becomes British colony |
Jan 8 |
Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon |
Jan 9 |
Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. |
Jan 10 |
Dutch in Capetown surrender to British |
Jan 12 |
French evacuate Vienna |
Jan 19 |
Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope |
Jan 30 |
Prussia takes possession of Hanover |
Jan 30 |
The original Lower Trenton Toll Bridge, which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. A later bridge opened in 1935 is also known as the Trenton Makes - the World Takes Bridge. |
Mar 29 |
Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. |
Apr 5 |
Isaac Quintard patents apple cider |
May 30 |
Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. |
Jun 5 |
1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee) |
Jun 5 |
Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland |
Jun 24 |
British under Commodore Popham and Colonel Beresford reach Buenos Aires |
Jun 27 |
Buenos Aires captured by British |
Jul 3 |
Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry |
Jul 10 |
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. |
Jul 15 |
Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest |
Aug 6 |
Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Francis II renounces the title, becoming Emperor of Austria. |
Sep 2 |
A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500 |
Sep 23 |
Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest |
Oct 7 |
Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood |
Oct 8 |
British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve |
Oct 9 |
Prussia declares war on France. |
Oct 14 |
Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians |
Oct 17 |
Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule. |
Oct 27 |
The French Army enters in Berlin. |
Nov 15 |
1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue |
Nov 15 |
Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) |
Nov 21 |
Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England |
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