1842 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1842?
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
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