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July 21 : TheBattle of Chinkiang is fought between British and Chinese troops.August 29 :The Treaty of Nanking is signed, ending the Opium War between Britain and China.1842 by topic Humanities By country Other topics Lists of leaders Birth and death categories Establishments and disestablishments categories Works category
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1842 (MDCCCXLII ) was acommon year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Thursday of theJulian calendar , the 1842nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 42nd year of the19th century , and the 3rd year of the1840s 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.
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January 6 –13 –First Anglo-Afghan War –Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Battle of Gandamak): BritishEast India Company troops are destroyed by Afghan forces on the road fromKabul toJalalabad ,Afghanistan , byAkbar Khan , son ofDost Mohammad Khan .January 8 –Delft University of Technology is established byWilliam II of the Netherlands , as a 'Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers'.[ 1] January 23 – Antarctic explorerJames Clark Ross , charting the eastern side ofJames Ross Island , reaches aFarthest South of 78°09'30"S.[ 2] January February 1 – The modern-dayWillamette University , the oldest institution of higher learning in the western United States, is established inSalem, Oregon as "The Oregon Institute". The first students begin classes begin on August 13, 1844.[ 4] February 7 –Battle of Debre Tabor : RasAli Alula , Regent of theEmperor of Ethiopia , defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam ofSemien .March –Commonwealth v. Hunt March 2 –Gaylad , ridden byTom Olliver , wins theGrand National atAintree Racecourse in England.March 5 – Mexican troops led byRáfael Vásquez invadeTexas , briefly occupySan Antonio , and then head back to theRio Grande . This is the first such invasion since theTexas Revolution .March 9 –Giuseppe Verdi 's third operaNabucco La Scala inMilan ; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost operatic composers.March 17 – TheFemale Relief Society of Nauvoo , forerunner to the philanthropic and educational women's organization ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is formally organized.[ 5] March 28 – TheVienna Philharmonic Orchestra , founded byOtto Nicolai , performs its first concert.[ 6] March 30 – American physician and pharmacistCrawford Long administers an inhaled anesthetic (diethyl ether ) to facilitate a surgical procedure, performing the removal of a neck tumor.[ 7] [ 8] March 31 – TheMiddleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway line is opened up toWerneth in North West England.April–September –1842 general strike spreads across England's industrial districts, driven byChartism . Includes thePreston Strike andPottery Riots . Protestors are killed by the military in several places.[ 9] April 13 –First Anglo-Afghan War :Battle of Jellalabad – British troops are victorious.May 5 –8 – TheGreat fire of Hamburg in Germany destroys around one-third of the city centre and kills 51.[ 10] May 8 –Versailles rail accident : A train traveling betweenVersailles and Paris, France derails, due to a broken locomotive axle, and catches fire, killing at least 55 passengers in the locked carriages.[ 11] May 11 – TheIncome Tax Act establishes the first peacetimeincome tax in the United Kingdom; 7pence in thepound , for incomes over 150 pounds.[ 12] May 19 –Dorr Rebellion : Militiamen supportingThomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal inProvidence, Rhode Island , but are repulsed.June 4 – In South Africa, hunterDick King rides into a British military base inGrahamstown , to warn that theBoers have besiegedDurban (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 theGreat Western Railway betweenSlough andLondon Paddington station .[ 13] June 18 –Education in Sweden : A primary school system is established inSweden .[ 14] June –James Nasmyth patents thesteam hammer in the United Kingdom.[ 15] Karl May Susan Augusta Pike Sanders Carl von Linde January 11 –William James , American psychologist, philosopher (d.1910 )January 15 –Mary MacKillop , first Australiansaint (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 20 –María Cabrales , Cuban independence activist, revolutionary and nurse (d.1905 )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 ofJohn 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 ofJohn Wilkes Booth (d.1865 )June 24 –Ambrose Bierce , American writer, satirist (d. ca.1914 )June 25 –Eloy Alfaro , 15thPresident of Ecuador (d.1912 )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 , 13thPresident of Liberia (d.1908 )[ 22] 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 ondermatology in AmericaSeptember 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 – SirJoseph 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 journalistSusan E. Dickinson [ 23] 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 )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 abolitionistMarch 6 –Constanze Mozart , German-born wife ofWolfgang 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 )Clemens Brentano Grace Darling July 13 – PrinceFerdinand 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 ofMexican War of Independence and wife ofAndrés Quintana Roo (b.1789 )[ 24] September 10 September 15 –Francisco Morazán , Honduran-born politician, President ofFederal 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 ofChi Psi fraternity,midshipman aboard theUSS Somers , hanged formutiny .[ 26] December 12 –Robert Haldane , British theologian (b.1764 )December 24 –Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies , Scottish judge (b.1760 )^ "History of the university" . TU Delft. 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