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What Happened in June 1806

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Historical Events

  • 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
  • Jun 29 Orkney woman Isobel Gunn sets sail for Prince Rupert's Land disguised as a man to work for the Hudson Bay Company - her true identity only revealed when she gives birth December 1807 [1]
Events in 1806

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 1 John B Floyd, American Governor (Virginia), Secretary of War (1857-60) and Confederate general, born in Blacksburg, Virginia (d. 1863)
  • Jun 2 Isaac Strauss, French violinist, conductor and composer, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1888)
  • Jun 8 Gideon Johnson Pillow, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Williamson County, Tennessee (d. 1878)
  • Jun 12 John Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), born in Mühlhausen, Germany (d. 1869) [1]
  • Jun 13 Bernard ter Haar, Dutch poet (Herbert and Clara) and church historian, born in Amsterdam (d. 1880)
  • Jun 16 Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
  • Jun 27 Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer, born in Besançon, France (d. 1883)
Born in 1806

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 8 George Wythe, US attorney (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at about 79
  • Jun 23 Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and naturalist (Ornithologie), dies at 83
  • Jun 28 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, German composer, dies at 64


What Happened in 1806

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