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1842 Historical Event(s)
- February 7, 1842 – Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
- February 21, 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
- March 9, 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 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 9, 1842 – The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
- 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?
- February 6, 1842 – Mary Rudge, English chess master (d. 1919)
- April 4, 1842 – Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
- April 29, 1842 – Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
- June 24, 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author (disappeared ca. 1914)
- July 26, 1842 – Alfred Marshall, neoclassical economist (d. 1924)
- September 20, 1842 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
- October 14, 1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
- November 12, 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)
- December 3, 1842 – Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)