What Happened in 1806
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Beethoven Composes His Fourth Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Major, Op. 60, was written in 1806. It was premiered in March of 1807 at a private concert of the... Read more
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Noah Webster Publishes "A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language", His First Dictionary
Noah Webster, the author of popular readers and spelling books for schools, published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English... Read more
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Andrew Jackson Kills Charles Dickinson in a Duel
The controversy surrounding Rachel and Andrew Jackson's marriage remained a sore point for Jackson, who deeply resented attacks on his wife's... Read more
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John A Roebling is born
On June 12, 1806, John A. Roebling, civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, was born in Muehlhausen, Prussia. The Brooklyn Bridge,... Read more
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Assassination of Jean Jacques Dessalines
In January 1804, Dessalines, preferring Napoleon’s style rather than the more liberal yet vulnerable type of political government of the French... Read more