For 18 months, during 1841 – 1842, Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, the Jacobs Apologistic School in Stockholm.

* 1842 – The Webster – Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the Canada – United States border east of the Rocky Mountains.

* 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter ( d. 1842 )

* 1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.

* 1842 – Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician ( d. 1922 )

A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).

* Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia ( 1842 – 1858 )

* 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

* 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( d. 1849 )

* 1842 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman ( d. 1911 )

Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell ( 1776 – 1842 ), moved to the parsonage, initially to nurse her dying sister, but she spent the rest of her life there raising the children.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

* 1780 – William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian ( d. 1842 )

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

#*** Albertine Marie Thérèse Bonaparte ( 1842 – 1842 )

** Canton System, to control trade with the west ( 1757 – 1842 )

In 1842 Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to enrol in a boarding school run by Constantin Heger ( 1809 – 96 ) and his wife Claire Zoé Parent Heger ( 1804 – 87 ).

* 1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist ( d. 1921 )

* 1842 – Alfred Marshall, English economist ( d. 1924 )

* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.

* January 24 – Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist ( b. 1842 )

Alfred Marshall ( 26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924 ) was one of the most influential economists of his time.

Rivalry between academic opinion at LSE and Cambridge goes back to the School's roots when LSE's Edwin Cannan ( 1861 – 1935 ), Professor of Economics, and Cambridge's Professor of Political Economy, Alfred Marshall ( 1842 – 1924 ), the leading economist of the day, argued about the bedrock matter of economics and whether the subject should be considered as an organic whole.

In 1842, the English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson, published the oft-quoted lines " Locksley Hall ": For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see / Saw a Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be /... / Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer / and the battle-flags were furled / In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

Alfred G. " Alferd " Packer ( January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907 ) was an American prospector who was accused of cannibalism during the winter of 1873-1874.

* Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière ( 1842 – 1925 ), a Canadian politician and journalist

Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1st Baronet, of Homestead ( 13 January 1842 – 24 January 1932 ) was a British shipbuilder who started a shipbuilding dynasty, Yarrow Shipbuilders.

* Alfred de Rothschild ( 1842 – 1918 )

" Ulysses " is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry.

Alfred Tennyson's poem St. Simeon Stylites ( 1842 ) dramatizes the story of Saint Simeon.

Alfred Bird registered as a pharmacist in Birmingham in 1842, having served an apprenticeship to Phillip Harris of that city.

* Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses, published in 1842, has been called the first true dramatic monologue.

* Sir Alfred Yarrow ( 1842 – 1932 ), British shipbuilder

# Alfred Charles ( 1842 – 1918 )

Keeping created four books in this format: The Highwayman ( 1981 ), illustrating the 1906 poem by Alfred Noyes in gruesome detail, for which he won his second Greenaway Medal ; Beowulf ( 1982 ), adapted from the Anglo-Saxon epic by Kevin Crossley-Holland, in which the illustrations subverted the text with a certain sympathy for the monster ; The Wedding Ghost ( 1985 ), an original story by Leon Garfield ; and The Lady of Shalott ( 1986 ), illustrating the 1833 / 1842 Arthurian poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

* Princess Henriette Maria Norberta ( Schloss Liechtenstein bei Mödling, 6 June 1843 – Schloss Frauenthal, 24 December 1931 ), married in Vienna on 26 April 1865 her first cousin Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein ( 1842 – 1907 ), and had issue, which eventually inherited the Principality by male line

Alfred Shaw ( Burton Joyce Nottinghamshire, 29 August 1842 – 16 January 1907 in Gedling, Nottinghamshire ) was an eminent Victorian cricketer and rugby footballer, who bowled the first ball in Test cricket and was the first to take five wickets in a Test innings ( 5 / 35 ).

In 1869, Lionel's son, Alfred de Rothschild ( 1842 – 1918 ), became a director of the Bank of England, a post he held for 20 years.

* Alfred Charles de Rothschild ( 1842 – 1918 ), Governor of the Bank of England

Alfred Nicolas Rambaud ( 2 July 1842 – 10 November 1905 ) was a French historian.

The caddish fictional hero participates in a cricket match at Lord's in 1842 that features some of the leading cricketers of that era-Felix, Fuller Pilch, and Alfred Mynn.