1842
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| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s |
| Years: | 1839 1840 1841 - 1842 - 1843 1844 1845 |
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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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[edit] Events of 1842
[edit] January - March
- January - Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed Khan, carries out the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
- February 7 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien province|Semien.
- March - Commonwealth v. Hunt: the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.
- March 2 - Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver, wins the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse.
- 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 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.
[edit] April - June
- May 8 - Versailles train crash: Two trains collide near Paris and catch fire, killing 59.
- May 19 - Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island but are repulsed.
- June 4 - In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into a British military base in Grahamstown to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.
[edit] July - December
- August 4 - The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.
- August 9 - The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
- August 10 - The Mines Act 1842 becomes law, prohibiting underground work for all women and boys under 10 years old in England.
- August 29 - The Treaty of Nanking ends the First Opium War and establishes Hong Kong as a British colony.
- October 29 - The Iberian Peninsula is struck by a category 2 hurricane.
- December 20 - The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is established.
[edit] Undated
- The Sons of Temperance is founded in New York City.
- The Income Tax Act 1842 is passed in the United Kingdom; 7 pence on the pound sterling, for incomes over 150 pounds.
- Pentonville Prison is built.
- The New Zealand seat of government moves from Russell to Auckland.
- The Scroll and Key secret society of Yale University is established.
- The first pils beer is brewed in the Czech city of Pilsen. The Pils is the original lager beer of which all modern lagers are copies.
- Founding of:
- Cumberland University
- Wesleyan University
- University of Notre Dame (by Father Edward Sorin, CSC of the Congregation of Holy Cross)
- Hollins University (in Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke)
- Villanova University (in Villanova, Pennsylvania by the Augustinian order)
- Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington
[edit] Ongoing events
- First Opium War (1839-1842)
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1842 MDCCCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2595 |
| Armenian calendar | 1291 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2 – -1 |
| Berber calendar | 2792 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2386 |
| Burmese calendar | 1204 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7350 – 7351 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年十一月二十日 (4478/4538-11-20) — to —
壬寅年十一月三十日(4479/4539-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 1558 – 1559 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1834 – 1835 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5602 – 5603 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1897 – 1898 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1764 – 1765 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4943 – 4944 |
| Holocene calendar | 11842 |
| Iranian calendar | 1220 – 1221 |
| Islamic calendar | 1257 – 1258 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 13 (天保13年) |
| Korean calendar | 4175 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2385 |
[edit] 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)
[edit] July - December
- July 4 - Hermann Cohen, German-Jewish philosopher (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)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
- February 15 - Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, politician and diplomat (b. 1764)
- March 6 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b.1762)
- March 13
- Samuel Eells, Founder of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (b. 1810)
- Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
- March 15 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
- March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
- May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
[edit] 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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