
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1839 1840 1841 - 1842 - 1843 1844 1845 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * February 21 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine. * March 5 - 00 Mexico troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas briefly occupy San Antonio, Texas and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution. * March 30 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation (Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation and ether was used). * March 31 - Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line opened up to Werneth in North West England. * August 9 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. * Massacre of Mountstuart Elphinstone's British army on the road from Kabul to Jallalabad, Afghanistan, by Mohammed Akbar, son of Dost Mohammed Khan * August 29 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War * British Empire annexes Hong Kong * Pentonville (HM Prison) Prison built. * New Zealand seat of government moves from Russell to Auckland, New Zealand * Ohio's Ohio Wesleyan University is established. ==Births== * 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 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 S. Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900) * May 17 - August Thyssen, Swiss industrialist (d. 1926) * June 12 - Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (d. 1866) * 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) * December 9 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921) * Anna Elizabeth Dickenson, American orator (d. 1932) ==Deaths== * March 13 - Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761) * March 15 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760) * March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783) * March 30 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755) * April 4 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1784) * May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) * July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778) * September 15 - Francisco Morazán, President of Central America (b. 1792) 1842 la:1842 mi:1842 os:1842
I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 21:07, 6 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1839 1840 1841 - 1842 - 1843 1844 1845 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * February 21 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine. * March 5 - 00 Mexico troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas briefly occupy San Antonio, Texas and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution. * March 30 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation (Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation and ether was used). * March 31 - Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line opened up to Werneth in North West England. * August 9 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. * Massacre of Mountstuart Elphinstone's British army on the road from Kabul to Jallalabad, Afghanistan, by Mohammed Akbar, son of Dost Mohammed Khan * August 29 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War * British Empire annexes Hong Kong * Pentonville (HM Prison) Prison built. * New Zealand seat of government moves from Russell to Auckland, New Zealand * Ohio's Ohio Wesleyan University is established. ==Births== * 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 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 S. Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900) * May 17 - August Thyssen, Swiss industrialist (d. 1926) * June 12 - Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (d. 1866) * 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) * December 9 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921) * Anna Elizabeth Dickenson, American orator (d. 1932) ==Deaths== * March 13 - Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761) * March 15 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760) * March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783) * March 30 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755) * April 4 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1784) * May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) * July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778) * September 15 - Francisco Morazán, President of Central America (b. 1792) 1842 la:1842 mi:1842 os:1842
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I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 21:07, 6 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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