1806

Events edit

May 30 - Future President of the United States Andrew Jackson fights his second duel, killing a man who had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
June 5 – Emperor Napoleon I appoints one of his younger brothers, Louis Bonaparte, as King of Holland, thus replacing the Batavian Republic.
August 6 - Francis II abdicates as Holy Roman Emperor, effectively dissolving the Holy Roman Empire. A number of the empire's former German vassals subsequently join Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine.
September 25 - Prussia issues an ultimatum to Paris, threatening war if France does not halt marching its troops through Prussian territory to reach Austria; the message does not reach Napoleon Bonaparte until October 7, and he responds by attacking Prussia.
October 8 – Napoleon responds to the September 25 ultimatum from Prussia, and begins the War of the Fourth Coalition; Prussia is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.
October 17 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Emperor Jacques I) is assassinated by disaffected members of his administration.