What Happened In January 1806 - Historical Events 1806 January

Historical Events for January, 1806

1st » The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
8th » Cape Colony becomes a United Kingdom called British colony.
10th » Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the United Kingdom known as British.
19th » The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
30th » The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania or Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

1st » Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic German/French chess player (d. 1853)
3rd » Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
14th » Charles Hotham, English-Australian soldier and politician, 1st Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
14th » Matthew Fontaine Maury American astronomer, oceanographer, and historian (d. 1873)
27th » Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)

23rd » William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)