1806

Years: 1803 1804 1805 - 1806 - 1807 1808 1809
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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

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
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.
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.
October 14 - Battle of Jena-AuerstÃÂ¤dt
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).