Timeline Sunday 6 December 1846

Events on Sunday 6 December 1846 2

• 1846 Battle of San Pasqual Californios check Kearny's advance Andrés Pico's Californio lancers struck Stephen Kearny's exhausted dragoons near present-day San Diego. The Americans lost more than 20 men killed and had to be rescued by a relief force.
• 1846 Premiere of Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust Berlioz's dramatic legend fails in Paris Hector Berlioz staged the first performance of La Damnation de Faust at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. It drew small audiences and lost him a lot of money, but later became one of his most performed works.