1806 in France
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Events from the year 1806 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 6 February - Battle of San Domingo, British naval victory over French squadron.
- February - France invades 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: 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 ends 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 disengage successfully from superior French forces.
Births
- 13 January - Michel Chevalier, engineer, statesman and economist (died 1879).
- 1 February - François Jouffroy, sculptor (died 1882).
- 10 April - Juliette Drouet, actress (died 1883).
- 30 April - Charles Théodore Colet, Roman Catholic Archbishop (died 1883).
- 21 July - Louis Victor Leborgne, also known as Tan, patient of Paul Broca (died 1861).
- 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).
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).
- 9 September - Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, lawyer and politician (born 1733).
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References
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