1806 in France explained

Events from the year 1806 in France.

Incumbents

Emperor - Napoleon I^[1]

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)

Notes and References

Web site: BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte . www.bbc.co.uk . 26 June 2022.