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*[[Stendhal]] (1783 - 1842) *[[Stendhal]] (1783 - 1842)
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 +===January - March===
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 +*January - [[Massacre of Elphinstone's army]] on the road from [[Kabul]] to [[Jalalabad]], [[Afghanistan]], by [[Akbar Khan]], son of [[Dost Mohammed Khan]].
 +* [[February 7]] - Ras [[Ali II of Yejju|Ali Alula]], Regent of the [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] defeats warlord [[Wube Haile Maryam]] of [[Semien province|Semien]] in the [[Battle of Debre Tabor]]
 +* [[March 5]] - [[Mexico|Mexican]] troops led by [[Rafael Vasquez]] invade [[Texas]] briefly occupy [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] and then head back to the [[Rio Grande]]. This is the first such invasion since the [[Texas Revolution]].
 +*[[March 6]] - [[Constanze Mozart]], Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's wife, dies.
 +*[[March 9]] - [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s third opera ''[[Nabucco]]'' premieres in [[Milan]]; its success establishes [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]] as one of [[Italy]]'s foremost opera writers.
 +* [[March 30]] - [[Anesthesia]] is used for the first time in an operation (Dr. [[Crawford Long]] performed the operation using [[diethyl ether|ether]]).
 +* [[March 31]] - [[Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway]] line opened up to [[Werneth, Greater Manchester|Werneth]] in North West [[England]].
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 +===April - June===
 +* [[May 8]] - Two trains collide in [[Paris]] and catch fire - 59 dead
 +* [[May 19]] - [[Dorr Rebellion]] - militiamen supporting [[Thomas Wilson Dorr]] attack arsenal in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] but are repulsed
 +* [[June 4]] - In [[South Africa]], hunter [[Richard Philip King|Dick King]] rides into British military base in [[Grahamstown]] to warn that [[Boer]]s have besieged [[Durban]]. He had left 11 days earlier. British army dispatches a relief force.
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 +===July - September===
 +* [[August 4]] - [[Armed Occupation Act]] is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of [[East Florida]].
 +* [[August 9]] - [[Webster-Ashburton Treaty]] is signed, establishing the [[United States]]-[[Canada]] border east of the [[Rocky Mountains]].
 +* [[August 29]] - [[Treaty of Nanking]] signing ends the [[First Opium War]]
 +
 +===October - December===
 +* [[December 20]] - [[The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina]] is established.
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 +===Undated===
 +* [[Sons of Temperance]] founded in New York City.
 +* [[British Empire]] annexes [[Hong Kong]]
 +* [[Income Tax Act 1842]] passed in the [[United Kingdom]]; 7 [[British One Penny coin (pre-decimal)|pence]] on the [[pound sterling]], for incomes over 150 pounds.
 +* [[Pentonville (HM Prison)|Pentonville]] Prison built.
 +* [[New Zealand]] seat of government moves from Russell to [[Auckland, New Zealand|Auckland]]
 +* Ohio's [[Ohio Wesleyan University|Wesleyan University]] is established.
 +*[[University of Notre Dame]] is founded by Father [[Edward Sorin]], CSC of the [[Congregation of Holy Cross]].
 +*[[Scroll and Key]] [[secret society]] of [[Yale University]] established.
 +*[[Commonwealth v. Hunt]] makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.
 +*First [[pils]] beer brewed in the Czech city of [[Pilsen]]. The Pils is the original lager beer of which all modern lagers are copies.
 +* [[Hollins University]] founded in Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke.
 +* [[Villanova University]] is founded in [[Villanova, Pennsylvania]] by the [[Augustinian]] order
 +*[[Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington]] is founded.
 +
 +===Ongoing events===
 +* [[First Opium War]] ([[1839]]-1842)
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 +==Births==
 +{{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Tenpo|Tenpō]] 12 &ndash; 13}}
 +===January - June===
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 +* [[January 11]] - [[William James]], American psychologist and philosopher (d. [[1910]])
 +* [[February 3]] - [[Sidney Lanier]], American writer (d. [[1881]])
 +* [[February 4]] - [[Arrigo Boito]], Italian poet and composer (d. [[1918]])
 +* [[February 25]] - [[Karl May]], German writer (d. [[1912]])
 +*[[March 2]] - [[Carl Jacobsen]], Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (d. [[1914]])
 +* [[March 10]] - [[Mykola Lysenko]], Ukrainian composer (d. [[1912]])
 +* [[March 18]] - [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], French poet (d. [[1898]])
 +* [[May 8]] - [[Emil Christian Hansen]], Danish fermentation physiologist (d. [[1909]])
 +* [[May 13]] - [[Arthur Sullivan]], English composer (d. [[1900]])
 +* [[June 12]] - [[Rikard Nordraak]], Norwegian composer (d. [[1866]])
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 +* [[July 4]] - [[Hermann Cohen]], German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century" (d. [[1918]])
 +* [[August 23]] - [[Osborne Reynolds]], Irish engineer and physicist (d. [[1912]])
 +* [[September 13]] - [[John H. Bankhead]], U.S. Senator (d. [[1920]])
 +* [[September 21]] - [[Abd-ul-Hamid II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1918]])
 +* [[October 14]] - [[Joe Start]], baseball player (d. [[1927]])
 +* [[October 28]] - [[Anna Elizabeth Dickenson]], American orator (d. [[1932]])
 +* [[November 12]] - [[John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1919]])
 +* [[December 2]] - [[C. W. Alcock]], English footballer and football official (d. [[1907]])
 +* [[December 9]] - [[Peter Kropotkin]], Russian anarchist (d. [[1921]])
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 +: ''See also [[:Category: 1842 births]].''
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 +==Deaths==
 +===January - June===
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 +*[[February 15]] - [[Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo]], politician and diplomat (b. [[1764]])
 +*[[March 13]]
 +**[[Samuel Eells]], Founder of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (b. [[1810]])
 +**[[Henry Shrapnel]], English soldier and inventor (b. [[1761]])
 +*[[March 15]] - [[Luigi Cherubini]], Italian composer (b. [[1760]])
 +*[[March 23]] - [[Stendhal]], French writer (b. [[1783]])
 +*[[April 4]] - [[Jean Moufot]], French philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1784]])
 +*[[May 8]] - [[Jules Dumont d'Urville]], French explorer (b. [[1790]])
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 +===July - December=== <!-- DEATHS -->
 +*[[July 13]] - [[Prince Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans]], French prince (b. [[1810]])
 +*[[July 25]] - [[Dominique Jean Larrey]], French surgeon (b. [[1766]])
 +*[[July 28]] - [[Clemens Brentano]], German poet (b. [[1778]])
 +*[[September 15]] - [[Francisco Morazán]], President of Central America (b. [[1792]])
 +*[[October 20]] - [[Grace Darling]], heroine (b. [[1815]])
 +*[[October 24]] - [[Bernardo O'Higgins]], first Chilean head of state after independence (b.[[1778]])
 +*[[December 12]] - [[Robert Haldane]], theologian (b. [[1764]])

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