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Special Events for the Year 1806 - back to GREGSITE

Born :05/12/1806Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
Born :09/12/1806Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1863
Born :03/21/1806Benito Pablo Ju rez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of M‚xico (1858-72)
Born :05/06/1806Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
Born :04/29/1806Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician/philosop
Born :03/06/1806Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
Born :05/16/1806George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
Born :06/08/1806Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
Born :12/03/1806Henry Alexander Wise, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Born :05/26/1806Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
Born :04/09/1806Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
Born :05/12/1806J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
Born :01/17/1806James Madison Randolph, (Jefferson's grandson) 1st born in White House
Born :03/12/1806Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
Born :10/18/1806John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861
Born :06/01/1806John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
Born :07/20/1806John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian)
Born :05/20/1806John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
Born :09/13/1806Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brig General (Confederate Army), die in 1862
Born :09/11/1806Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Born :02/14/1806Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
Born :04/10/1806Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Born :04/09/1806Louis count of Barrthy nyi, premier of Hungary
Born :01/14/1806Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander (Confederacy)
Born :01/20/1806Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
Born :03/16/1806Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
Born :11/24/1806Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor/viceroy of Bosnia/Iraq
Born :12/12/1806Stand Watie, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
Born :10/16/1806William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
Died :10/09/1806Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
Died :08/23/1806Charles Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, dies
Died :10/17/1806Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
Died :08/22/1806Jean-Honor‚ Fragonard, painter, dies
Died :05/31/1806Micha‰l FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, dies
Died :08/24/1806Paul-Louis Cyffl‚, Flemish sculptor/goldsmith (Terre Lorraine), dies
Died :09/20/1806Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
Died :01/23/1806William Pitt de Jongere, premier Great Britain, dies
Special :11/15/18061st US college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes 1st issue
Special :06/05/18061st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
Special :09/02/1806A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
Special :06/05/1806Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
Special :10/14/1806Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
Special :01/19/1806Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope
Special :06/27/1806Buenos Aires captured by British
Special :01/10/1806Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrender to the British
Special :11/15/1806Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
Special :01/12/1806French evacuate Vienna
Special :08/06/1806Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
Special :03/23/1806Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
Special :09/23/1806Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
Special :07/03/1806Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
Special :01/30/1806Prussia takes possession of Hanover

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