- 1842
Year 1842 (MDCCCXLII) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian Calendar (or acommon year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1842
January - March
*January -Akbar Khan , son ofDost Mohammed Khan , carries out theMassacre of Elphinstone's Army on the road fromKabul toJalalabad ,Afghanistan .
*February 7 -Battle of Debre Tabor : Ras Ali Alula, Regent of theEmperor 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 byTom Olliver , wins theGrand National atAintree Racecourse .
*March 5 - Mexican troops led byRafael Vasquez invadeTexas , briefly occupy San Antonio, and then head back to theRio Grande . This is the first such invasion since theTexas Revolution .
*March 9 -Giuseppe Verdi 's third opera "Nabucco " premieres inMilan ; its success establishes Verdi as one ofItaly '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 WestEngland .April - June
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May 8 -Versailles train crash : Two trains collide nearParis and catch fire, killing 59.
*May 19 -Dorr Rebellion : Militiamen supportingThomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal inProvidence, Rhode Island but are repulsed.
*June 4 - InSouth Africa , hunter Dick King rides into a British military base inGrahamstown to warn that theBoer s have besiegedDurban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.July - December
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August 4 - TheArmed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula ofEast Florida .
*August 9 - TheWebster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing theUnited States -Canada border east of theRocky Mountains .
*August 10 - The Mines Act 1842 becomes law, prohibiting underground work for all women and boys under 10 years old inEngland .
*August 29 - TheTreaty of Nanking ends theFirst Opium War and establishesHong Kong as a British colony.
*October 29 - TheIberian 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.
* TheIncome Tax Act 1842 is passed in theUnited Kingdom ; 7 pence on thepound sterling , for incomes over 150 pounds.
* Pentonville Prison is built.
* TheNew Zealand seat of government moves from Russell to Auckland.
* TheScroll and Key secret society ofYale University is established.
* The firstpils beer is brewed in the Czech city ofPilsen . 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 FatherEdward Sorin , CSC of theCongregation of Holy Cross )
**Hollins University (in Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke)
**Villanova University (inVillanova, Pennsylvania by theAugustinian order)
**Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Ongoing events
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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 (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 6 -Constanze Mozart , wife ofWolfgang 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 )July - December
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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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