A Regency Era Timeline 1806 in progress
That’s right, today is the first week that it is available. Kindle’s today, and then in a week or so, you can have it in your hands physically if you so desire in Trade Paperback form as the other releases from our publisher, Regency Assembly Press does.
This release the publisher is trying out the Kindle Select program so it is exclusive to Amazon for 90 days. What that means for you, a reader, is that should you have
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then you can borrow the book, free to you, and try before you buy (always, please buy.)
For myself and Regency Assembly Press it is an experiment. RAP (And we hope you all are RAPpers and not RAPscallions) wants to see if this will work. They have also reduced the price of this book to half of what RAP books sell for. $3.99 for an electronic copy.
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Love is something that can not be fostered by deceit even should one’s eyes betray one’s heart.
Two brothers that are so close in appearance that only a handful have ever been able to tell them apart. The Earl of Kent, Percival Francis Michael Coldwell is only older than his brother, Peregrine Maxim Frederick Coldwell by 17 minutes. They may have looked as each other, but that masked how they were truthfully quite opposite to one another.
For Percy, his personality was one that he was quite comfortable with and more than happy to let Perry be of a serious nature. At least until he met Veronica Hamilton, the daughter of Baron Hamilton of Leith. She was only interested in a man who was serious.
Once more, Peregrine is obliged to help his older brother by taking his place, that the Earl may woo the young lady who has captured his heart. That is, until there is one who captures Peregrine’s heart as well.
Available in other digital formats on 11/15/2012
Timeline
Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.
With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,
The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein
Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield
What Happened When by Carruth.
, History of the World. A beautiful Dorling Kindersley book.
I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.
Here is the start of 1806:
Year
Month Day
Event
1806
Jan 2
Lord Grenville presented to British Parliament a “Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” effective May 1. He introduced it directly to the House of Lords. It passed the House of Lords by 64 votes and cleared the House of Commons on March 25.
1806
Jan 7
Responding to Napoleon’s blockade of the British Isles, The British blockaded Continental Europe.
1806
Jan 11
Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University (NY), was born in Westchester, NY.
1806
Jan 19
Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Civil War Confederate Armies, was born in Stratford, Va.
1806
Jan 20
Napoleon convened the great Sanhedrin in Paris.
1806
Jan 22
President Thomas Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1806
Jan 28
London’s Pall Mall was 1st street lit by gaslight.
1806
January
January: Admiral Lord Nelson is the first commoner to be given a state funeral.
1806
January
January: Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina of Naples flee to Sicily, and Napoleon installs his brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Naples and Sicily.
1806
January
January: Prime Minister William Pitt dies at age 46. He leaves behind enormous personal debts, which the House of Commons contrives to pay off, but manages to leave his niece, Lady Hester Stanhope, a penison of £1200 a year. She has acted as housekeeper and hostess for her bachelor uncle in the last 3 years of his life.
1806
January
January: The British occupy the Cape of Good Hope after the surrender of Cape Town by the Dutch.
1806
January
January: The Times of London publishes its first illustration, showing Nelson’s funeral.
1806
11-Feb
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1806
Feb 5
Pasquale Paoli (80), Corsican freedom fighter, died.
1806
Feb 8
At Eylau, Poland, Napoleon’s Marshal Pierre Agureau attacked Russian forces in a heavy snowstorm. Like Napoleon, to whom he is most often compared, Alexsandr Suvorov believed that opportunities in battle are created by fortune but exploited by intelligence, experience and an intuitive eye. To him, mastery of the art and science of war was not, therefore, purely instinctive. Napoleon’s forces ran low on supplies at Eylau and ate their horses.
1806
Feb 9
French Sanhedrin was convened by Napoleon.
1806
Feb 19
Former Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama. He was subsequently tried for treason and acquitted. [see May 22, Sep 1]
1806
Feb 24
In a crush to witness the hanging of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England 17 died and 15 were wounded.
1806
Feb 27
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (d.1882), was born in Portland, Maine. He was an American poet famous for “The Children’s Hour,” and “Evangeline.” “What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries—these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the soul.”
1806
February
February: Lord Grenville becomes Britain’s Prime Minister.
1806
February
February: The first issue of the magazine La Belle Assemblée is published.
1806
Mar 2
Congress banned slave trade effective January 1, 1808. The further importation of slaves was abolished but an inter-American slave trade continued.
1806
Mar 5
1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 4th Symphony in B.
1806
Mar 25
William Wilberforce (1759-1833), evangelical member of Parliament, piloted a slave-trade abolition bill through the British House of Commons. This led to a labor problem in South Africa. In 1833 Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire when the Slavery Abolition Bill was read a third time
1806
Mar 25
1st railway passenger service began in England.
1806
March
March: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, celebrated beauty, society hostess, and political campaigner, dies at age 47.
1806
Apr 4
Joseph Jerome Le Francaise de Lalande, French astronomer, died.
1806
Apr 18
Erasmus Darwin, physician, writer (Influence), died.
1806
Apr 20
Aloysius Bertrand (“Gaspard de la Nuit”), French poet, was born.
1806
May 1
John Bankhead “Prince John” Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
1806
May 22
The treason trial of former VP Aaron Burr began in Richmond, Va. [see Sep 1]
1806
May 22
Townsend Speakman 1st sold fruit-flavored carbonated drinks in Phila.
1806
May 28
Jean Louis Agassiz (d.1873), Swiss naturalist and educator, was born. He wrote a succession of papers [1840] outlining continental glaciation not only of Europe but of North America.
1806
May
May: England introduces a blockade of the European coast from Brest to the Elbe, but permits ships of neutral nations to pass if they are not carrying goods to or from enemy ports.
1806
Jun 22
British officers of the HMS Leopard boarded the USS Chesapeake after she had set sail for the Mediterranean, and demanded the right to search the ship for deserters. Commodore James Barron refused and the British opened fire with broadsides on the unprepared Chesapeake and forced her to surrender. The British provocation led to the War of 1812.
1806
Jun 24
A grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor. He was later acquitted.
1806
Jun 25
Napoleon I of France and Russian Czar Alexander I met near Tilsit, in northern Prussia, to discuss terms for ending war between their empires.
1806
Jun 25
Napoleon I of France and Russian Czar Alexander I met near Tilsit, in northern Prussia, to discuss terms for ending war between their empires.
1806
June
June: Architect Henry Holland dies at age 60.
1806
June
June: Napoleon installs his brother Louis Bonaparte as king of Holland.
1806
Jul 2
In the wake of the Chesapeake incident, in which the crew of a British frigate boarded an American ship and forcibly removed four suspected deserters, President Thomas Jefferson ordered all British ships to vacate U.S. territorial waters.
1806
Jul 4
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) Italian military leader, was born in Nice, France. He led the movement to make Italy one nation.
1806
Jul 7
Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilsit ending war between their empires. It divided Europe among themselves and isolated Britain.
1806
July
July: English painter George Stubbs dies at age 81.
1806
July
July: The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by the Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1806
Aug 3
Former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with treason. He was acquitted less than a month later.
1806
Aug 11
David Atchison, legislator, was born. He was president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, and president of U.S. for one day [March 4, 1849], the Sunday before Zachary Taylor was sworn in.
1806
Aug 11
The Eclipse, a Yankee fur trading vessel, sank in the Shumagin Islands, south of the Alaska Peninsula. It is the oldest known American shipwreck in Alaska and as of 2007 had not been found.
1806
Aug 17
Robert Fulton’s “North River Steam Boat” (popularly, if erroneously, known to this day as the Clermont) began heading up New York’s Hudson River on its successful round-trip to Albany. It was 125 feet (142-feet) long and 20 feet wide with side paddle wheels and a sheet iron boiler. He averaged 5 mph for the 300-mile round trip.
1806
Aug 18
Charles Francis Adams (d.1886), U.S. diplomat and public official whose father was John Quincy Adams, was born.
1806
Aug 18
Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) began work on the 117-foot Bell Rock lighthouse at the mouth of Scotland’s Firth of Forth based on a proposal he submitted in 1800. The lighthouse began operating on Feb 1, 1811.
1806
Aug 19
Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat arrived in Albany, two days after leaving New York.
1806
Aug 21
Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat set off from Albany on its return trip to New York, arriving some 30 hours later.
1806
August
August: Francis II abdicates as Holy Roman Emperor, thus ending the 806-year old Holy Roman Empire.
1806
August
August: French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard dies at age 74.
1806
Sep 1
Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. [see 1806] Burr had been arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to establish a Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico. Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.
1806
Sep 2
British forces began bombarding Copenhagen for several days, until the Danes agreed to surrender their naval fleet.
1806
Sep 4
Robert Fulton began operating his steamboat. [see Aug 17]
1806
Sep 7
Denmark surrendered to British forces that had bombarded the city of Copenhagen for four days.
1806
Sep 15
Former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found innocent of treason.
1806
September
September: Charles James Fox, prominent Whig statesman and persistant rival of William Pitt, dies at age 57.
1806
September
September: Prussia and Saxony declare war on France.
1806
Oct 17
Britain declared it would continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held US citizenship.
1806
October
October: Napoleon defeats Prussia in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt.
1806
October
October: Opera singer Angelica Catalani arrives in London and is a huge success when she sings at the King’s Theatre in Haymarket.
1806
October
October: The first edition of the British magazine Le Beau Monde is published.
1806
November
November: Napoleon enforces the Continental System, a blockade forbidding every major power in Europe (who were by then either his allies or conquests) from trading with Britain.
1806
Dec 14
A number of meteorites fell onto Weston, Connecticut.
1806
Dec 17
John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, was born in Haverhill, Mass. He was an abolitionist, reformer and founder of the Liberal Party.
1806
Dec 22
Congress passed the Embargo Act, designed to force peace between Britain and France by cutting off all trade with Europe. It was hoped that the act would keep the United States out the European Wars.
1806
21-Apr 12:00 AM
Saudi Arabs led Sunni raids into Najaf, Iraq, killing about 5,000 people.
1806
1806
British essayist William Hazlitt publishes Principles of Human Action.
1806
English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor publish Rhymes for the Nursery, which includes Jane’s nursery rhyme “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.”
1806
Funeral procession of Admiral Lord Nelson, from the Admiralty to St. Paul’s, London,January 9, 1806 – print by Augustus Charles Pugin.
1806
Rossini’s first opera, “Demetrio a Polibio,” is performed in Rome.
1806
Watier’s Club is established in London. Dubbed the “Dandy Club” by Lord Byron, it was known for its fine food and high-stakes gambling. Beau Brummell is appointed as perpetual president.
1806
The Emperor of Austria, Francis I, abdicates his other title: Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire, created in the 800s, is formally dissolved, with Napoleon reorganizing much of it into his Confederation of the Rhine.
1806
Jean Jacques Dessalines, leader of Haiti’s revolution and self-declared emperor, is being viewed by his generals as a ridiculous figure. Dessalines announces his plan to march with troops into the south, where he is not popular, and the south explodes in rebellion. Dessalines’ generals prepare a trap for him along the way. His horse is shot from under him. He is pinned under his horse, he is shot in the head and his body hacked to pieces with machetes.
1806
Ruling the seas, a British naval force takes control of Cape Colony in South Africa — the Dutch who had been ruling there now being ruled by Britain’s enemy, Napoleon.
1806
Nov 21, In the Decree of Berlin Emperor Napoleon banned all trade with England.
1806
Nov 28, French forces led by Joachim Murat entered Warsaw.
1806
Dec 3, Henry Alexander Wise (d.1876), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born.
1806
Dec 6, The African Meeting House was dedicated in Boston. It was later used by Frederick Douglass and other prominent abolitionists to rail against slavery. In 1974 it was named as a National History Landmark. In 2011 a $9 million restoration was completed.
1806
Dec 26, Napoleon’s army was checked by the Russians at the Battle of Pultusk.
1806
Jean-Gabriel Charvet painted his wallpaper panel “Savages of the Pacific Ocean.”
1806
Jean Ingres painted his magnificent: “Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne.”
1806
In London James Beresford published his bestselling book “The Miseries of Human Life, or the groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy. In twelve dialogues.”
1806
Charles and Mary Lamb authored “Tales from Shakespeare.” [see 1796: Mad Mary Lamb]
1806
Noah Webster (1758-1843), a Connecticut schoolmaster, published a short dictionary. He then began work on a longer work: “An American Dictionary of the English language,” which was completed in England 1825 and published as a 2-volume set in 1828.
1806
Wordsworth (1770-1850) composed the lines: “The world is too much with us.”
1806
A catalog of the plants at Elgin Botanical Garden was published. This was the first botanical garden in NYC and was located at what later became Rockefeller Center.
1806
A printed reference to a mixed drink cocktail first appeared in the US.
1806
William Strickland, architect of the first Town Hall in New York, introduced the technique of the suspension bridge in the United States, which he learned in France.
1806
In Baltimore, Maryland, ground was broken for a cathedral designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Bungles and war delayed dedication until 1821. In 1937 Pope Pius XI elevated the cathedral to a basilica.
1806
Jesse Wood of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. was tried for the murder of his son.
1806
Aaron Burr, Vice-President under Thomas Jefferson, was implicated in a reputed plot among northeastern Federalists to break up the Union rather than to submit to four more years of Republican rule. One of the goals of the Burr Conspiracy was to separate Louisiana and other Western states from the Union and establish an empire with Burr at the head. Aaron Burr, formerly vice president under Thomas Jefferson, had recently slain Alexander Hamilton in a duel in July 1804 when he began plotting a movement to separate the Western states from the Union. Burr was later tried for treason in federal court and acquitted. Burr was captured in 1806 on the Ohio River and charged with recruiting forces to further plot the disunion.
1806
Shoemakers in Philadelphia formed a union.
1806
Ye Old Pepper Companie was founded in Salem, Mass., USA. It claims to be the country’s oldest candy company.
1806
NYC Mayor DeWitt Clinton, having read the work of Englishman Joseph Lancaster, formed the New York Free School Society to found Lancastrian schools.
1806
Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel over a debt owed on a horse race bet. Jackson was struck in the chest by Dickinson‘s shot but returned fire and killed his opponent. “I should have hit him,” he reportedly said, “if he had shot me through the brain.” His duel with Dickinson was one of several the often ill-tempered Jackson engaged in. Jackson, who became the seventh U.S. president in 1829, carried Dickinson‘s bullet in his chest until he died in 1845.
1806
Lord Grenville succeeded William Pitt as British prime minister.
1806
The British wrested power over South Africa from the Dutch and prompt the Boer farmers to later move into the interior.
1806
The British began the construction of Dartmoor Prisoner to house French soldiers captured in the Napoleonic Wars. It was capable of housing 10,500 prisoners and 2,000 guards.
1806
In Paris the 3-mile Canal St. Marten waterway was built to connect the Seine to northeast France.
1806
Napoleon issued his Berlin Decrees. They established the Continental System to restrict European trade with Britain.
1806
Napoleon ordered that all French citizens be vaccinated against smallpox.
1806
A ruling by the Spanish king set a boundary between Honduras and Nicaragua projecting eastward along the 15th parallel from the mouth of the Coco River. In 1999 Nicaragua filed a border case against Honduras with the UN. It was resolved in 2007.
1806-1813
Trieste was held under French rule.
1806-1914
In 1996 Public Broadcasting featured “The West,” a historical documentary covering this period in the US.
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