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1842 Historical Event(s)
January 13, 1842
– Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
February 7, 1842
– Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
March 9, 1842
– The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
March 17, 1842
– The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
March 30, 1842
– Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
May 30, 1842
– John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
August 1, 1842
– The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
August 14, 1842
– Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
August 29, 1842
– Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
November 26, 1842
– The University of Notre Dame is founded.
Who Were Born On 1842?
January 11, 1842
– William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
February 6, 1842
– Mary Rudge, English chess master (d. 1919)
March 28, 1842
– William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
June 11, 1842
– Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
September 7, 1842
– Johannes Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
September 21, 1842
– Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
September 29, 1842
– Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
October 26, 1842
– Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
November 12, 1842
– John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)
December 17, 1842
– Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician; (d. 1899)