Events from the year 1806 in France.
Incumbents Emperor – Napoleon I
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. 6 August – Napoleon dissolves the Holy Roman Empire 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, probable suicide (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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