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Year '1842' ('MDCCCXLII') was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1842

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1842

January - March

★ January - Massacre of Elphinstone's army on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed Khan.

★ February 7 - Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien in the Battle of Debre Tabor

★ February 21 - John J. Greenough patents the threading machine.

★ March 5 - Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution.

★ March 6 - Constanze Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's wife, dies.

★ March 9 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera ''Nabucco'' premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

★ March 30 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation (Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation using ether).

★ March 31 - Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line opened up to Werneth in North West England.

April - June

★ May 8 - Two trains collide in Paris and catch fire - 59 dead

★ May 19 - Dorr Rebellion - militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island but are repulsed

★ June 4 - In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into British military base in Grahamstown to warn that Boers have besieged Durban. He had left 11 days earlier. British army dispatches a relief force.

July - September

★ August 4 - Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.

★ August 9 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

★ August 29 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War

October - December

★ December 20 - The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is established.

Undated

★ Sons of Temperance founded in New York City.

★ British Empire annexes Hong Kong

★ Income Tax Act 1842 passed in the United Kingdom; 7 pence on the pound sterling, for incomes over 150 pounds.

★ Pentonville Prison built.

★ New Zealand seat of government moves from Russell to Auckland

★ Ohio's Wesleyan University is established.

★ University of Notre Dame is founded by Father Edward Sorin, CSC of the Congregation of Holy Cross.

★ Scroll and Key secret society of Yale University established.

★ Commonwealth v. Hunt makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.

★ First pils beer brewed in the Czech city of Pilsen. The Pils is the original lager beer of which all modern lagers are copies.

★ Hollins University founded in Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke.

★ Villanova University is founded in Villanova, Pennsylvania by the Augustinian order

★ Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington is founded.

Ongoing events

★ First Opium War (1839-1842)

Births

January - June

★ January 11 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)

★ February 3 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)

★ February 4 - Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)

★ February 25 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)

★ March 2 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (d. 1914)

★ March 10 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)

★ March 18 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)

★ May 8 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (d. 1909)

★ May 13 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)

★ June 12 - Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (d. 1866)

July - December

★ July 4 - Hermann Cohen, German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century" (d. 1918)

★ August 23 - Osborne Reynolds, Irish engineer and physicist (d. 1912)

★ September 13 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)

★ September 21 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)

★ October 14 - Joe Start, baseball player (d. 1927)

★ October 28 - Anna Elizabeth Dickenson, American orator (d. 1932)

★ November 12 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)

★ December 2 - C. W. Alcock, English footballer and football official (d. 1907)

★ December 9 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
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Deaths

January - June

★ February 15 - Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, politician and diplomat (b. 1764)

★ March 13

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★ Samuel Eells, Founder of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (b. 1810)

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★ Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761)

★ March 15 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)

★ March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)

★ April 4 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1784)

★ May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)

July - December

★ July 13 - Prince Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans, French prince (b. 1810)

★ July 25 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)

★ July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)

★ September 15 - Francisco Morazán, President of Central America (b. 1792)

★ October 20 - Grace Darling, heroine (b. 1815)

★ October 24 - Bernardo O'Higgins, first Chilean head of state after independence (b.1778)

★ December 12 - Robert Haldane, theologian (b. 1764)
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