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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.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January
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
Female Relief Society of Nauvoo , forerunner to the philanthropic and educational women's organization of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is formally organized.
[4]
March 28 – The
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra , founded by
Otto Nicolai , performs its first concert.
[5]
March 30 – American physician and pharmacist
Crawford Long administers an inhaled anesthetic (
diethyl ether ) to facilitate a surgical procedure (removal of a neck tumor).
[6]
[7]
March 31 – The
Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line is opened up to
Werneth in North West England.
April–June
April 13 –
First Anglo-Afghan War –
Battle of Jellalabad : British troops are victorious.
May 5 –
8 –
Great fire of Hamburg in Germany destroys around one-third of the city centre and kills 51.
[8]
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.
[9]
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 13 –
Queen Victoria becomes the first reigning British monarch to travel by train, on the
Great Western Railway between
Slough and
London Paddington station .
[10]
June 18 – A
primary school system is established in
Sweden .
[11]
June –
James Nasmyth
patents the
steam hammer in the United Kingdom.
[12]
July–September
October–December
Date unknown
Births
January–June
Karl May
Susan Augusta Pike Sanders
Carl von Linde
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 , 46th Prime Minister of France (d.
1923 )
February 11
February 23 –
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann , German philosopher (d.
1906 )
February 24 –
Arrigo Boito , Italian poet, composer (d.
1918 )
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 5 –
A. Viola Neblett , American activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer (d.
1897 )
March 10 –
Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (d.
1912 )
March 18 –
Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet (d.
1898 )
March 25 –
Susan Augusta Pike Sanders , American teacher, clubwoman, author; national president of the Woman's Relief Corps (d.
1931 )
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 4 –
Marietta Bones , American suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist (d.
1901 )
May 7 –
Isala Van Diest , Belgian physician (d.
1916 )
May 8 –
Emil Christian Hansen , Danish fermentation physiologist (d.
1909 )
May 13 –
Sir 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 , 15th
President of Ecuador (d.
1912 )
July–December
Abdul Hamid II
Madeleine Brès
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 18 –
William D. Coleman , 13th
President of Liberia (d.
1908 )
[19]
July 19 –
Lydia Hoyt Farmer , American author, women's rights activist (d.
1903 )
July 30 –
Thomas J. O'Brien , American politician, diplomat (d.
1933 )
August 21 –
Harriet Earhart Monroe , American 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 10 –
Henry Granger Piffard (d.
1910 ), New York dermatologist and author of the first systematic treatise on
dermatology in America
September 13 –
John H. Bankhead , American senator (d.
1920 )
September 20 –
Sir James Dewar , Scottish chemist, physicist (d.
1923 )
September 22 –
Abdul Hamid II ,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1918 )
September 29 – Sir
Joseph Palmer Abbott , Australian politician and solicitor (d.
1901 )
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 ), younger sister of journalist
Susan E. Dickinson
[20]
November 12
November 26 –
Madeleine Brès , French physician (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 )
December 12 –
Alfred Parland , Russian architect (d.
1919 )
Deaths
January–June
January 12 –
Johanna Stegen , German heroine (b.
1793 )
January 19 –
Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme , French jurist and politician (b.
1749 )
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
March 15 –
Luigi Cherubini , Italian composer (b.
1760 )
March 23 –
Stendhal , French novelist (b.
1783 )
March 30 –
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun , French painter (b.
1755 )
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
Clemens Brentano
Grace Darling
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 )
August 24 –
Leona Vicario , leader of
Mexican War of Independence and wife of
Andrés Quintana Roo (b.
1789 )
[21]
September 10
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 )
October 25 –
Sampson Salter Blowers , American lawyer, jurist (b.
1742 )
December 1 –
Philip Spencer , American founder of
Chi Psi fraternity,
midshipman aboard the
USS Somers , hanged for
mutiny .
[23]
December 12 –
Robert Haldane , British theologian (b.
1764 )
December 24 –
Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies , Scottish judge (b.
1760 )
Date unknown
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