1806
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| Gregorian calendar | 1806 MDCCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2559 |
| Armenian calendar | 1255 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6556 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1727–1728 |
| Bengali calendar | 1212–1213 |
| Berber calendar | 2756 |
| British Regnal year | 46 Geo. 3 – 47 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2350 |
| Burmese calendar | 1168 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7314–7315 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4503 or 4296 — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4504 or 4297 |
| Coptic calendar | 1522–1523 |
| Discordian calendar | 2972 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1798–1799 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5566–5567 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1862–1863 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1727–1728 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4906–4907 |
| Holocene calendar | 11806 |
| Igbo calendar | 806–807 |
| Iranian calendar | 1184–1185 |
| Islamic calendar | 1220–1221 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunka 3 (文化３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1732–1733 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4139 |
| Minguo calendar | 106 before ROC 民前106年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 338 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2348–2349 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1932 or 1551 or 779 — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1933 or 1552 or 780 |
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1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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
- February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806
- 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.
- April 8 - Marriage of Stephanie de Beauharnais to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich.
- June 5 - Louis Bonaparte is appointed as king of Holland by his brother emperor Napoleon.
- 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.
- September - Prussia declares war on France, and is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.
- October 14 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt - Napoleon defeats the Prussian army of Prince Hohenlohe at Jena while Marshal Davout defeats the main Prussian army under the Duke of Brunswick, who is killed.
- October 24 - French forces enter Berlin.
- November - Napoleon declares a Continental Blockade against the British
- 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).
- November 24 - The last major Prussian field force, under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, surrenders to the French near Lübeck. The king of Prussia has by this time fled to Russia.
- November 30 - Napoleon captures Warsaw.
- December 26 - Battle of Pultusk. Russian forces under General Bennigsen narrowly escape from a direct confrontation with Napoleon, who goes into winter quarters.
- Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary.
Ongoing events
- Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) - Fourth Coalition
- Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812
Births
- January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
- March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
- March 12 - Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
- March 21 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (d. 1872)
- April 9 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
- May 20 - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d. 1873)
- June 28 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
- July 5 - James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (d. 1900)
- October 3 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
- December 11 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (d. 1886)
Deaths
- January 23 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- February 2 - Rétif de la Bretonne, French writer (b. 1734)
- February 19 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
- February 20 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
- April 9 - William V of Orange (b. 1748)
- April 22 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
- May 24 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
- June 23 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
- July 10 - George Stubbs, English painter (b. 1724)
- July 11 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
- August 10 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
- August 22 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b. 1742)
- August 23 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
- September 9 - William Paterson, Signer of the United States Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
- October 9 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)
- October 10 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
- December 22 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
- Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771)