1806 in France

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See also: 1805 in France, 1807 in France.

Events from the year 1806 in France.

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.

Births

13 January - Michel Chevalier, engineer, statesman and economist (died 1879).
1 February - François Jouffroy, sculptor (died 1882).
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).

Full date unknown

Charles-Théodore Colet, Roman Catholic Archbishop (died 1883).

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).

References

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