1842

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Years:	1839 1840 1841 – 1842 – 1843 1844 1845

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Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Contents 1 Events of 1842 1.1 January–March 1.2 April–June 1.3 July–December 1.4 Undated 1.5 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January–June 2.2 July–December 3 Deaths 3.1 January–June 3.2 July–December

Events of 1842

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.
• 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.

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.
• June 20 – Anselmo de Andrade, Portuguese economist and politician born in Vila Real de Santo António.

July–December

• July 13 – The Tri-Kap fraternity is founded at Dartmouth College. It is the oldest local fraternity in the nation.
• 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.

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 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 (Bloomington)
  • Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington
  • Willamette University in Salem, Oregon

Ongoing events

• First Opium War (1839–1842)

Births

1842 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1842 MDCCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2595
Armenian calendar	1291 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-2 – -1
Bengali calendar	1249
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
- Bikram Samwat	1898 – 1899
- 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

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)
• April 2 – Dominic Savio, Italian adolescent student of John Bosco (d. 1857),
• 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)
• June 24 – Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American writer and satirist (d. ca. 1914)

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)

Deaths

January–June

• February 15 – Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, politician and diplomat (b. 1764)
• March 4 – James Forten, abolutionist.
• 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)
• May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799)

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 10 – William Hobson 1st governer general of nz/ treaty of waitangi writer (b.26 September 1792)
• 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)