1806 in France
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See also: 1805 in France, other events of 1806, 1807 in France.
Events from the year 1806 in France.
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[edit] Events
- 6 February - Battle of San Domingo, British naval victory over French squadron.
- February - France invaded 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, decisive British tactical victory over French forces.
- 18 July - Siege of Gaeta ends as French artillery breaks through the city's defences.
- 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, ended 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 disengaged successfully from superior French forces.
[edit] Births
- 13 January - Michel Chevalier, engineer, statesman and economist (d.1879).
- 1 February - François Jouffroy, sculptor (d.1882).
- 12 August - Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, journalist and politician (d.1880).
- 28 October - Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle, botanist (d.1893).
- 3 December - Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac, Bishop (d.1875).
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[edit] Deaths
- 2 February - Nicolas-Edme Rétif, novelist (b.1734).
- 22 April - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, naval officer (b.1763).
- 23 June - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, zoologist and natural philosopher (b.1723).
- 22 August - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter and printmaker (b.1732).
- 23 August - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (b.1736).
