1806 in France
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Events from the year 1806 in France.
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Incumbents
- Emperor â Napoleon I[1]
Events
- 6 February â Battle of San Domingo, British naval victory over French squadron.
- February â France invades the Kingdom of Naples.
- 26 February â Siege of Gaeta begins: French besiege Neapolitan forces.
- 10 March â Battle of Campo Tenese: Decisive French victory over Neapolitan forces.
- 8 April â Marriage of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, to Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich of Baden.
- 5 June â Louis Bonaparte is appointed as king of Holland by his brother Napoleon.
- 4 July â Battle of Maida: British tactical victory over French forces.
- 18 July â Siege of Gaeta ends as French artillery breaks through the city's defences.
- 6 August â Napoleon dissolves the Holy Roman Empire
- September â Prussia declares war on France, and is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.
- 9 October â Battle of Schleiz: French victory over Prussia.
- 10 October â Battle of Saalfeld: French victory over Prussian forces.
- 14 October â Battle of Jena-Auerstedt: Decisive French victory over Prussia.
- 24 October â French forces enter Berlin.
- 6 November â Battle of Lübeck: French victory over Prussian forces.
- 21 November â Berlin Decree, issued by Napoleon, forbidding the import of British goods into European countries allied with or dependent upon France.
- 24 November â The last major Prussian field force surrenders to the French near Lübeck.
- 30 November â Napoleon captures Warsaw.
- 11 December â Treaty of PoznaÅ ends the war between France and Saxony (Prussia's ally).
- 26 December â Battle of PuÅtusk: Inconclusive battle leading to Russian retreat.
- 26 December â Battle of Golymin: Russian forces disengage successfully from superior French forces.
Births
- 13 January â Michel Chevalier, engineer, statesman and economist (died 1879)
- 1 February â François Jouffroy, sculptor (died 1882)
- 10 April â Juliette Drouet, actress (died 1883)
- 30 April â Charles Théodore Colet, Roman Catholic Archbishop (died 1883)
- 21 July â Louis Victor Leborgne, also known as Tan, patient of Paul Broca (died 1861)
- 12 August â Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (died 1880)
- 28 October â Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (died 1893)
- 3 December â Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac, Bishop (died 1875)
Deaths
- 2 February â Nicolas-Edme Rétif, novelist (born 1734)
- 22 April â Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, naval officer, probable suicide (born 1763)
- 23 June â Mathurin Jacques Brisson, zoologist and natural philosopher (born 1723)
- 22 August â Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter and printmaker (born 1732)
- 23 August â Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (born 1736)
- 9 September â Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, lawyer and politician (born 1733)
