Major Events
- Jan 1 Napoléon Bonaparte abolishes the French Republican calendar after 12 years of use
- Jan 8 Battle of Blaauwberg: British forces attack French vassal, the Batavian Republic near Cape Town, modern day South Africa
- Jan 8 Explorer William Clark views skeleton of a 105 ft whale washed up on Cannon Beach, inhabited by the Tillamook Nation (modern Oregon) [1]
- Jan 9 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London
- Jan 10 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
- Jan 12 French evacuate Vienna
- Jan 19 United Kingdom re-occupies the Cape of Good Hope following victory in the Battle of Blaauwberg over French vassal, the Batavian Republic. Establishes British rule in South Africa.
- 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.
- Feb 11 William Grenville becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the death of William Pitt the Younger
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Fun Fact About 1806
Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy
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Famous Weddings in 1806
- Aug 12 Frontiersman Davy Crockett (20) weds Polly Finley in Tennessee
- Oct 14 German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar
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