Timeline June 1806

Events in June 1806 2

• 1806 Louis Bonaparte becomes King of Holland Napoleon installs his brother as monarch On 5 June 1806, Napoleon made his younger brother Louis Bonaparte king of the newly created Kingdom of Holland, replacing the Batavian Republic. The kingdom functioned as a French satellite state, though Louis sought to govern with more independence than Napoleon wished. He abdicated in 1810 when Napoleon annexed the kingdom outright.
• 1806 British occupation of Buenos Aires Britain briefly seizes the Spanish colonial capital British forces under William Beresford captured Buenos Aires on 25 June 1806 during an unauthorized expedition against Spain's South American colonies. Local militia and Spanish colonial troops recaptured the city on 12 August 1806, forcing a British surrender. The episode spurred the growth of local self-reliance that fed later independence movements.