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 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer ( d. 1907 )

* 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 )

A prominent radical abolitionist, Episcopalian, and Most Worshipful Grand Master of Freemasonry from Lowell and Boston, Massachusetts, Lewis became a Latter Day Saint about 1842.

** Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( 1842 – 1849 ), daughter of Alexander II of Russia

In 1839 the Grand Western Canal reached Taunton aiding trade to the south, which was further enhanced by the arrival of the railway in 1842.

* Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( 1842 – 1849 ), eldest child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia

All of those first initiated by Smith on May 4, 1842, were longstanding or recent Masons: Adams was the Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois ; Whitney, Miller and Kimball had previously been Lodge Masters ; Smith's brother, Hyrum, had been a Mason since 1827, and the remaining five participants ( Law, Marks, Young, Richards, and Smith himself ) had been initiated as Freemasons just weeks before the meeting.

In 1842, Cole embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe in an effort to study in the style of the Old Masters and to paint its scenery.

The Ojibwas ceded the island to the U. S. in the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe, with the Grand Portage Band unaware that neither they nor Isle Royale were in British territory.

With the clarification to the Ojibwas of the 1842 Webster – Ashburton Treaty that was signed before the Treaty of La Pointe, the Ojibwas re-affirmed the 1842 Treaty of La Pointe in the 1844 Isle Royale Agreement, with the Grand Portage Band signing the agreement as an addendum to the 1842 treaty.

* A single post of Resident was also created in Côte d ' Ivoire, i. e. Ivory Coast ( from 1881 subordinated to the Superior Commandant of Gabon and the Gulf of Guinea Settlements ; from 1886 subordinated to the Lieutenant Governors of Guinea ), where in 1842 France had declared protectorates over the Kingdoms of Nzima and Sanwi ( posts at Assinié 1843 – 1870, and Grand Bassam, Fort Dabou 1853 – 1872, part of the Colony of Gorée and Dependencies in Senegal

The village was the birthplace of ' black ' Tom Oliver, who, after adding an l to his name to become Olliver, became the winning rider of the 1842, 1843 and 1853 Grand Nationals.

Paul Friedrich's oldest son was Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( 1823 – 1883 ), who succeeded as Grand Duke in 1842.

Paul Friedrich ( 15 September 1800 – 7 March 1842 ) ruled as Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1837 to 1842.

Grand Duke Friedrich ( 1800 – 1842 ) decided to rebuild the castle, and ordered his architect Georg Adolph Demmler ( 1804 – 1886 ) to do so.

He was appointed to the colonelcy of the 56th ( West Essex ) Regiment of Foot in 1831, and in 1842 transferred to the colonelcy of his old regiment, the 50th ( Queen's Own ) Regiment of Foot ; he was also made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ).

The territorial differences culminated in the Aroostook War in 1838 and Webster – Ashburton Treaty in 1842, gave Grand Falls to the province of New Brunswick.

In 1842, Grand Falls was included in Colebrook Township, named in honour of the Governor of New Brunswick, William MacBean George Colebrooke.

* Columbine, a racehorse, competitor in two Grand Nationals, finishing fifth in the 1842 Grand National

Problems arose concerning the special dispensation granted to the Nauvoo Lodge, brought by Bodley Lodge No. 1, and on August 11, 1842 the special dispensation was suspended by the Grand Master until the annual Communication of the Illinois Grand Lodge " During the short period covering its activities, this Lodge initiated 286 candidates and raised almost as many.

The death of the Duke of Orleans in 1842 was a blow to Barrot's party, which sought to substitute the regency of the Duchess of Orleans for that of the Duke of Nemours in the event of the succession of the Comte de Paris.

Charlotte, 4th Duchess of Richmond ( 1768 – 1842 ) ( Joseph Nollekens, 1812 ) Later in the year he married Lady Charlotte Gordon, daughter of the 4th Duke of Gordon.

* Robert Browning's My Last Duchess ( 1842 )

His widow, known as Duchess Blair, married thirdly on 12 November 1896 ( sep 1904 ) as his second wife Sir Albert Kaye Rollit ( 1842 – 1922 ), MP for South Islington.