* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins.

* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.

* 1724 – George Stubbs, English painter ( d. 1806 )

* Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg ( 1806 – 1876 ) – Austrian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805 – 1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria.

* 1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer ( b. 1737 )

* 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist ( d. 1806 )

* William Bernard Ullathorne ( 1806 – 89 )

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

* 1748 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic ( d. 1806 )

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British military expedition landed in the Cape Colony and defeated the defending Dutch forces at the Battle of Blaauwberg ( 1806 ).

When the Dutch Republic, during the Napoleonic Wars, was occupied by the French in 1795, henceforth becoming their vassal and enemy of the British, the United Kingdom invaded and occupied the Cape Colony that same year ; relinquished control of the territory in 1803 ; only to return and reoccupy the Cape on 19 January 1806.

Gogel's General Taxation Plan was finally enacted in June, 1805 ; a first government-approved attempt at unification of the Dutch spelling was made ; an embryonic Department of Agriculture and Department of Hydraulics were formed, to foreshadow the later government departments ; even a Pharmacopeia Batavia started the regulation of drugs ; and the School Law of 1806 organized a national system of public elementary education.

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477 – 1806 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995

William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau ( Willem Batavus ; 8 March 1748 – 9 April 1806 ) was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, and between 1795 and 1806 he led the Government of the Dutch Republic in Exile in London.

The emigrating Boers established several republics to the north, outside British control-after the British occupation of the former Dutch colony in 1795 and again in 1806.

People can still visit the Dutch Reformed church built in 1806 in which the father of Vincent, Theodorus van Gogh, started preaching in 1849.

Dutch expansion paused for several years during an interregnum of British rule between 1806 and 1816, when the Dutch Republic was occupied by the French forces of Napoleon.

After a battle in January 1806 on the shores of Table Bay, the Dutch garrison of Cape Castle surrendered to the British under Sir David Baird, and in 1814, the colony was ceded outright by the Netherlands to the British crown.

In 1806, William Colgate, himself a soap and candle maker, opened up a starch, soap and candle factory on Dutch Street in New York City under the name of " William Colgate & Company ".

The third rhyme to come from Colchester is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which was written by Jane Taylor in the town's Dutch Quarter, and published in 1806 with the title " The Star ".

A Dutch oven was among the gear Lewis and Clark carried when they explored the great American Northwest in 1804 – 1806.

He was the son of Baron Aeneas Mackay ( 1806 – 1876 ) ( a Dutch politician who had been created Baron Mackay in the Netherlands in 1858 ), son of Johan Francois Hendrik Jakob Ernestus Mackay, brother of the tenth Lord Reay.

Originally established as a colony of the Dutch Republic, Java remained in Dutch hands throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which time the French invaded the Republic and established the Batavian Republic in 1795, and the Kingdom of Holland in 1806.

* Israel, Jonathan ( 1995 ), The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477 – 1806, Clarendon Press, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-873072-1

* The first Java was a 32 gun 5th rate, originally the Dutch Maria Reijersbergen built at Amsterdam in 1800, and captured from the Dutch on 18 October 1806.

With the 1886 discovery of gold in the Transvaal, the resulting gold rush brought thousands of British and other prospectors and settlers from across the globe and over the border from the Cape Colony ( under British control since 1806 ).

Soon after his arrival at Sydney, in August 1806, Bligh was given an address of welcome signed by Major Johnston for the military, by Richard Atkins for the civilian officers, and by John Macarthur for the free settlers.

The first settlers arrived at Errol in 1806, and by 1820 the population was 36.

The first settlers arrived around 1806.

The first European-American settlers arrived around 1806 / 7, after the American Revolutionary War, when many settlers from New England migrated into upstate New York.

In 1806, settlers from Harpersfield, New York arrived and established Harpersfield Township, which included the present-day townships of Geneva, Trumbull and Hartsgrove.

Also in 1806, another group of early settlers from the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel pitched camp in Cambridge, reportedly because the women in the party refused to move on.

These settlers constructed a grist mill, which was to open in January 1806.

" It assumed its current name in 1806 due to the influence of settlers from Scotland.

The first settlers in the area were Quakers who started arriving in 1806 from the Catawissa area of Pennsylvania.

The first white settlers to discover the falls were members of a hunting party from the Lewis and Clark Expedition in March 1806.

The first settlers, the family of Joel Baker of Tolland County, Connecticut, arrived in 1806 and the township government was organized in 1812.

The episode was based on Burr's raising an armed group, allegedly to commit treason, in 1806, while another episode in the second season hinged on allegations that the Boonesborough settlers were planning insurrection against the British Crown, prior to the American Revolution.

Relations between the settlers and Indians had been sufficiently peaceful that, when Stillwater incorporated as a town in 1806, it named itself Orono, Maine after the recently-deceased Penobscot sachem, who had lived to the age of 113.