1806 in France

See also: 1805 in France, other events of 1806, 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 (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).

Full date unknown

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

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).

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