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1806 Historical Event(s)
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.
May 30, 1806
– Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
August 12, 1806
– Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
August 13, 1806
– Battle of Mišar during the Serbian revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
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 9, 1806
– Prussia declares war on France.
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.
Who Were Born On 1806?
February 22, 1806
– Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
March 28, 1806
– Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
April 3, 1806
– Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
April 10, 1806
– Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)
May 2, 1806
– Catherine Labouré, French visionary and saint (d. 1876)
May 20, 1806
– John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
June 12, 1806
– John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
July 29, 1806
– Horace Abbott, American iron manufacturer (d. 1887)
October 16, 1806
– William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1864–65) (d. 1869)
December 12, 1806
– Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871)