1806 in France

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1806
in
France

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See also:Other events of 1806
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Events from the year 1806 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • First Consul / EmperorNapoléon Bonaparte / Napoleon I

Events[]

  • 6 February - Battle of San Domingo, British naval victory over French squadron.
  • February - France invades the Kingdom of Naples.
  • 26 February - Siege of Gaeta begins: French besiege Neapolitan forces.
  • 10 March - Battle of Campo Tenese: Decisive French victory over Neapolitan forces.
  • 8 April - Marriage of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich of Baden.
  • 5 June - Louis Bonaparte is appointed as king of Holland by his brother Napoleon.
  • 4 July - Battle of Maida: British tactical victory over French forces.
  • 18 July - Siege of Gaeta ends as French artillery breaks through the city's defences.
  • 6 August - Napoleon dissolves the Holy Roman Empire
  • September - Prussia declares war on France, and is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.
  • 9 October - Battle of Schleiz: French victory over Prussia.
  • 10 October - Battle of Saalfeld: French victory over Prussian forces.
  • 14 October - Battle of Jena-Auerstedt: Decisive French victory over Prussia.
  • 24 October - French forces enter Berlin.
  • 6 November - Battle of Lübeck: French victory over Prussian forces.
  • 21 November - Berlin Decree, issued by Napoleon, forbidding the import of British goods into European countries allied with or dependent upon France.
  • 24 November - The last major Prussian field force surrenders to the French near Lübeck.
  • 30 November - Napoleon captures Warsaw.
  • 11 December - Treaty of Poznań ends the war between France and Saxony (Prussia's ally).
  • 26 December - Battle of Pułtusk: Inconclusive battle leading to Russian retreat.
  • 26 December - Battle of Golymin: Russian forces disengage successfully from superior French forces.

Births[]

  • 13 January - Michel Chevalier, engineer, statesman and economist (died 1879).
  • 1 February - François Jouffroy, sculptor (died 1882).
  • 10 April - Juliette Drouet, actress (died 1883).
  • 30 April - Charles Théodore Colet, Roman Catholic Archbishop (died 1883).
  • 21 July - Louis Victor Leborgne, also known as Tan, patient of Paul Broca (died 1861).
  • 12 August - Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (died 1880).
  • 28 October - Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (died 1893).
  • 3 December - Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac, Bishop (died 1875).

Deaths[]

  • 2 February - Nicolas-Edme Rétif, novelist (born 1734).
  • 22 April - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, naval officer (born 1763).
  • 23 June - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, zoologist and natural philosopher (born 1723).
  • 22 August - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter and printmaker (born 1732).
  • 23 August - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (born 1736).
  • 9 September - Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, lawyer and politician (born 1733).

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References[]

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