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1842 (MDCCCXLII) was
a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1842nd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
842nd year of the 2nd millennium,
the 42nd year of the 19th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1840s decade. As of
the start of 1842, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January ·
Michael
Alexander takes office, as the first appointee to the Anglican-German
Bishopric in Jerusalem. ·
American medical student William E.
Clarke of Berkshire
Medical College becomes the first person to administer an
inhaled anesthetic, to
facilitate a surgical procedure (dental extraction).[1] ·
January 6–13 – First Anglo-Afghan
War – Massacre
of Elphinstone's army (Battle of Gandamak): British East India Company troops
are destroyed by Afghan forces on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost
Mohammad Khan. ·
January 8 – Delft
University of Technology is established by William II
of the Netherlands, as a 'Royal Academy for the education of
civilian engineers'.[2] ·
January 23 – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross, charting the eastern side
of James Ross Island,
reaches a Farthest South of
78°09'30"S.[3] ·
February 1 – Willamette
University is established in Salem, Oregon. ·
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 in
England. ·
March 5 – Mexican troops led by Ráfael Vásquez 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 at La Scala in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one
of Italy's foremost operatic composers. ·
March 17 – The Relief Society, a philanthropic and
educational women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS
Church) is founded. ·
March 28 – The Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, founded by Otto Nicolai, performs its first concert.[4] ·
March 30 – American physician and
pharmacist Crawford Long administers
an inhaled anesthetic (diethyl ether)
to facilitate a surgical procedure (removal of a neck tumor).[5][6] ·
March 31 – The Middleton
Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line is opened up to Werneth in
North West England. April–June[edit] ·
April 13 – First Anglo-Afghan
War – Battle of Jellalabad:
British troops are victorious. ·
May 8 – Versailles rail
accident: A train traveling between Versailles and
Paris, France derails, due to a broken locomotive axle, and catches fire,
killing at least 55 passengers in the locked carriages. ·
May 11 – The Income Tax Act establishes
the first peacetime income tax in
the United Kingdom; 7 pence in
the pound, for
incomes over 150 pounds.[7] ·
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 Boershave besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier).
The British army dispatches a relief force. ·
June 13 – Queen Victoria becomes the first
reigning British monarch to travel by train, on the Great Western
Railwaybetween Slough and London
Paddington station.[8] ·
June 18 – A primary school system is
established in Sweden.[9] ·
June – James Nasmyth patents the steam hammer in the United Kingdom.[10] July–September[edit] ·
July 8 – A total solar
eclipse occurs in Asia. ·
July 13 – The Tri-Kap fraternity is founded at
Dartmouth College (the oldest local fraternity in the United States). ·
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 the United Kingdom. ·
August 14 – American Indian Wars:
United States general William J. Worth declares the Second Seminole War to
be over. ·
August 29 – The Treaty of Nanking,
an unequal treaty between
Britain and Qing dynasty China,
ends the First Opium War,
and establishes Hong Kong as a British colony until 1997. ·
September – Wesleyan
University is established in Ohio. ·
September 16–17 – The Treaty of Chushul ends
the Sino-Sikh War. October–December[edit] ·
October 5 – Josef Groll brews the first pilsner beer in the city of Pilsen, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). ·
October 29 – The Iberian Peninsula is
struck by a category 2 hurricane. ·
November 26 – The University of
Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana (United
States) is established by Father Edward Sorin, of the Roman Catholic Congregation
of Holy Cross. ·
December 7 – The New York
Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill,
performs its first concert.[11] ·
December 20 – The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina,
is established. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Tahuata are declared a protectorate of France. ·
The New Zealand seat of government moves
from Russell to Auckland. ·
Dzogchen Monastery,
in Sichuan, China, is almost completely
destroyed by an earthquake. ·
English palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the name Dinosauria,
hence the Anglicized dinosaur.[12] ·
Julius von Mayer proposes that work and heat are
equivalent.[13] ·
Pentonville Prison in
London begins to function. ·
The Sons of Temperance is
founded in New York City. ·
Founding
of: ·
Cumberland
University (in Lebanon, Tennessee). ·
Hollins University (in
Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke). ·
Villanova University (in Villanova,
Pennsylvania by the Augustinian order). ·
Indiana
University Maurer School of Law at Indiana
University Bloomington. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 11 – William James, American psychologist,
philosopher (d. 1910) ·
January 15 – Mary MacKillop, first Australian saint (d. 1909) ·
February 3 – Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881) ·
February 7 – Alexandre Ribot, Prime Minister of France
(d. 1923) ·
February 11 – Erik Gustaf Boström,
2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1907) ·
February 23 – Carl Theodore
Liebermann, German chemist (d. 1914) ·
February 4 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet, composer
(d. 1918) ·
February 23 – Karl
Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906) ·
February 25 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912) ·
March 2 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer, 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) ·
March 26 – Alexandre
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist (d. 1909) ·
March 30 – John Fiske,
American philosopher (d. 1901) ·
April 2 – Dominic Savio, Italian adolescent student
of John Bosco (d. 1857) ·
April 17 – Maurice Rouvier, Prime Minister of France
(d. 1911) ·
May 7 – Isala Van Diest, Belgian physician (d. 1916) ·
May 8 – Emil Christian
Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (d. 1909) ·
May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900) ·
June 11 – Carl von Linde, German scientist, engineer
(d. 1934) ·
June 12 – Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer
(d. 1866) ·
June 16 – David Herold, accomplice of John Wilkes Booth (d. 1865) ·
June 24 – Ambrose Bierce, American writer, satirist
(d. ca. 1914) ·
June 25 – Eloy Alfaro Delgado Gabriel, President of Ecuador (d. 1912) July–December[edit]
John
Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ·
July 2 – Albert Ladenburg, German chemist (d. 1911) ·
July 4 – Hermann Cohen, German-Jewish philosopher
(d. 1918) ·
July 14 – Christian Lundeberg,
10th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1911) ·
July 30 – Thomas
J. O'Brien, American politician, diplomat (d. 1933) ·
August 21 – Harriet Earhart
Monroe, lecturer, educator, writer, producer (d. 1927) ·
August 23 – Osborne Reynolds, Irish engineer, physicist
(d. 1912) ·
September 3 – John Devoy, Irish rebel leader, exile
(d. 1928) ·
September 13 – John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920) ·
September 17 – Sofia Hagman, Finnish educator pioneer
(d. 1900) ·
September 20 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist, physicist
(d. 1923) ·
Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918) ·
Jakob Stilling, German ophthalmologist
(d. 1915) ·
October 3 – Frederick Rodgers,
American admiral (d. 1917) ·
October 14 – Joe Start, American baseball player
(d. 1927) ·
October 17 – Gustaf Retzius, Swedish physician, anatomist
(d. 1919) ·
October 27 – Giovanni Giolitti,
5-time Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928) ·
October 28 – Anna Elizabeth
Dickinson, American orator (d. 1932) ·
Ōyama Iwao, Japanese field marshal, a
founder of the Imperial Japanese Army (d. 1916) ·
John
Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) ·
November 26 – Madeleine Brès,
French medical (d. 1921) ·
December 2 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, football
official (d. 1907) ·
December 3 – Ellen Swallow
Richards, American chemist (d. 1911) ·
December 9 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921) ·
Adolf Bötticher,
German art historian (d. 1901) ·
Alfred Parland, Russian architect (d. 1919) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 12 – Johanna Stegen, German heroine (b. 1793) ·
February 15 – Carlo Andrea
Pozzo di Borgo, Corsican politician, Russian diplomat (b. 1764) ·
March 4 – James Forten, African American abolitionist ·
March 6 – Constanze Mozart, German-born wife of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (b.1762) ·
March 13 ·
Samuel Eells, American founder of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity (b. 1810) ·
Henry Shrapnel, English army officer,
inventor (b. 1761) ·
March 15 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760) ·
March 23 – Stendhal, French novelist (b. 1783) ·
May 8 – Jules Dumont
d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) ·
May 12 – Walenty
Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799) ·
June 9 – Maria Dalle Donne, Bolognese physician (b. 1778) ·
June 18 – François-André
Baudin, French admiral (b. 1774) July–December[edit]
·
July 13 – Prince Ferdinand
Philippe, Duke of Orléans, French prince (b. 1810) ·
July 21 – Laura M. Hawley
Thurston, American poet and educator (b. 1812) ·
July 25 – Dominique Jean
Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766) ·
July 28 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778) ·
William Hobson, Irish-born officer in the
British Royal Navy, first Governor-General
of New Zealand and co-author of Treaty of Waitangi (b. 1792) ·
Letitia Christian
Tyler, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1790) ·
September 15 – Francisco Morazán,
Honduran-born politician, President of Federal
Republic of Central America (b. 1792) ·
October 2 – William Ellery
Channing, American Unitarian theologian, minister (b. 1780) ·
October 20 – Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815) ·
October 24 – Bernardo O'Higgins,
first Chilean head of state after independence (b.1778) ·
December 1 – Philip Spencer, American founder of Chi Psi Fraternity, midshipman aboard the USS Somers ·
December 12 – Robert Haldane, British theologian (b. 1764) ·
December 24 – Adam Gillies,
Lord Gillies, Scottish judge (b. 1760) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Nodira, Uzbek poet, stateswoman (b. 1792) References[edit] 1.
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