In history, year 1842 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1842.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 13 january | First Anglo-Afghan War-William Brydon, an assistant surgeon inthe British Army, arrived at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the sole Europeansurvivor of the massacre of over 4,500 military personnel and over10,000 civilian camp followers retreating from Kabul, excluding a fewprisoners released later. |
| 09 march | Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdithat established his reputation as a composer, premiered at the Teatroalla Scala in Milan. |
| 09 march | The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. |
| 30 march | American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure. |
| 08 may | A train derailed and caught fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people. |
| 01 august | A parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, celebrating the endof slavery in the West Indies was attacked by a mob, leading to threedays of riots. |
| 14 august | American Indian Wars-American general William J. Worthdeclared the Second Seminole War to be over. |
| 28 august | The Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty ending the First OpiumWar, was signed, forcing the Chinese Qing Dynasty to give control of theisland that is now the site of Hong Kong, and other concessions to theBritish. |
| 26 november | The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, US, was founded as an all-maleinstitution by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross. |
| 29 August | Great Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking. |
| 11 January | Famous American thinker and philosopher William James was born in New York. |
| 21 February | John Greenoff got patent rights for sewing machine in US. |
| 30 March | Ether was first used as an anesthetic. |
| 08 January | Delft University of Technology established the Royal Academy for the Education of Civil Engineers by William II of the Netherlands. |
| 01 February | Willamette University was founded in Salem, Oregon. |
| 31 March | The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch railway line was opened in Vernes, North West England. |
| 13 April | First Anglo-Afghan War: The first British-Afghan War was fought in Geelabad, in which the British Army emerged victorious. |
| 18 June | An elementary school system was introduced in Sweden. |
| 09 July | Notary stamp law approved. |
| 29 August | Great Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanning, the opium war ended. |
| 18 September | The first edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gadget was published. |
| 05 October | Joseph Grol produced the first Pilsner beer in Bohemia in the city of Pilsen. |
| 26 November | University of Notre Dame was established. |
| 20 December | The Military College of South Carolina was established. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 October | Charles Cros / Poet / France |
| 01 March | Nikolaos Gyzis / Academic / Greece |
| 03 December | Ellen Swallow Richards / Chemist / United States of America |
| 03 April | Ulric Dahlgren / Colonel / United States of America |
| 03 December | Charles Alfred Pillsbury / Business Man / United States of America |
| 06 January | Clarence King / Mountaineer / United States of America |
| 08 June | John Q. A. Brackett / Politician / United States of America |
| 08 April | Elizabeth Bacon Custer / Author / United States of America |
| 08 May | Emil Christian Hansen / Physiologist / Denmark |
| 09 December | Peter Kropotkin / Philosopher / Russia |
| 11 January | William James / Philosopher / United States of America |
| 12 November | John William Strutt / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 13 August | Charles Wells / Brewer / United Kingdom |
| 18 March | Stéphane Mallarmé / Poet / France |
| 20 September | James Dewar / Chemist / United Kingdom |
| 22 September | Abdul Hamid II / Sultan / Turkey |
| 23 March | Susan Jane Cunningham / Mathematician / United States of America |
| 23 February | Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann / Author / Germany |
| 25 February | Karl May / Poet / Germany |
| 31 August | Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin / Journalist / United States of America |