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1842 Calendar

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•  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 21, 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
•  March 9, 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera writers.
•  March 17, 1842 – The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
•  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 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.

•  January 11, 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
•  January 15, 1842 – Josef Breuer, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1925)
•  February 6, 1842 – Mary Rudge, English chess master (d. 1919)
•  February 25, 1842 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
•  March 1, 1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
•  May 13, 1842 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
•  June 11, 1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
•  October 27, 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
•  November 12, 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)
•  December 3, 1842 – Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)