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 – 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.

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** 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 )

Within the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Articles of Faith are a list composed by Joseph Smith, Jr. as part of an 1842 letter sent to " Long " John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

* 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U. S. patent for the sewing machine.

* 1842 – John Q.

* John Robert Brown ( Virginia politician ) ( 1842 – 1927 ), U. S. representative ( R-VA, 1887 – 1889 )

* John Brown ( Seminole Chief ) ( 1842 – 1919 )

* John Brown ( Upper Canada politician ) ( 1791 – 1842 ), merchant and politician in Upper Canada

* John Brown ( educator ) ( 1763 – 1842 ), third president of the University of Georgia

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

* 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1919 )

John Bellenden Ker (? 1765 – 1842 ), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were actually written in ' Low Saxon ', a hypothetical early form of Dutch.

Color photography is almost as old as black-and-white, with early experiments dating to John Herschel's experiments with Anthotype from 1842, and Lippmann plate from 1891.

* 1842 – John H. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1920 )

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* June 30 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1842 )

** John H. Bankhead, U. S. Senator from Alabama ( b. 1842 )

In 1842, John Bennet Lawes discovered that bones treated with sulfuric acid produced a soluble fertilizer now known as superphosphate.

The school ended when John became fatally ill from tetanus in 1842 after cutting himself while shaving.

# Julia Mary Herschel ( 1842 – 1933 ) married on 4 June 1878 to Captain ( later Admiral ) John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear

In 1842, an American physician, John Gorrie, designed the first system to refrigerate water to produce ice.

John C. Frémont of the U. S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Carson led three expeditions from 1842 to 1846 over parts of California and Oregon.

* 1842 – John Greenough patents the first sewing machine in the United States.

Garrick's play was a huge success, and major productions took place in the United States in 1756 ( with Hannah Pritchard as Catharine ), in 1788 ( with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble ), in 1810 ( again with Kemble and his real life wife, Priscilla Hopkins Brereton ), and in 1842 ( with William Macready as Petruchio ).