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.

#*** 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 – Mary MacKillop, Australian Saint ( d. 1909 )

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

In 1842 Thomas M ' Clintock and his wife Mary Ann became founding members of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society and helped write its constitution.

by Mary Howitt as The neighbours: a story of every-day life ; in two volumes, 1842

* Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield, West Yorkshire ( 1842 )

In 1842, Mary became the wife of future U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, and upon his inauguration in 1861 she became the seventeenth First Lady of the United States.

The area was first settled by Jared Ford in 1842 by William and Mary Larner on a site within the Peters Colony grant.

Sidney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson ; he was mostly of English ancestry.

He received a state pension, but his personal life was dogged by tragedy including the deaths of all his five children within his lifetime ( Anne, age 5, d. 1817 ; Anastasia Mary, age 17, d. 1829 ; Olivia as a baby of a few months of age ; John Russell, aged 19, d. 1842 ; and Thomas Lansdowne, aged 27, d. 1849 ) and a stroke in later life, which disabled him from performances-the activity for which he was most renowned.

* January 20-Agnes Mary Clerke, English author on astronomy ( born 1842 )

* Mary Paine, b. Feb. 9, 1780 ; d. Feb. 27, 1842 ; m. Rev.

Hughes Sr., originally from Prince Edward County, Virginia, was a farmer, sheriff and a member of the Tennessee legislature from 1842 – 1843, Mary Hubbard was a native of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

In 1842, Mary Hughes died and the family moved to Bowie County, Texas.

Brentano then prepared The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary From the Visions of Anna Catherine Emmerich for publication, but he died in 1842.

Abraham Lincoln, then 33, married Mary Todd, age 23, on November 4, 1842, at the Edwards ' home in Springfield.

* Mary Caroline ( 1753 – 1842 ); married John Creichton, 1st Viscount ( later 1st Earl ) Erne.

Mary Howitt devoted herself to Scandinavian literature, and between 1842 and 1863 she translated the novels of Frederika Bremer and many of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen.

* Mary Symmes Harrison ( 28 January 1809-16 November 1842 )

In 1862, William Meredith married Mary ( 1842 – 1930 ), daughter of Marcus Holmes, Mayor of London, Director of the London & Lake Huron Railway Company and President of the Horticultural Society.

They had eight children: Roxana Cornelia ( b. 1826 ), Lucy Jane ( b. 1828 ), David Gaston ( b. 1831 ), Eunice Louisa ( b. 1832 ), Elvira Evelyna ( b. 1838 ), Sarah Corinne ( b. 1839 ), Adelaide Ann ( b. 1842 ) and Mary Martitia ( b. 1846 ).

On March 12, 1832, he married Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard ( May 27, 1809June 14, 1842 ), daughter of Francis Blanchard ( baptised February 1, 1784 – age estimated 29 at death, June 26, 1813 ) and wife ( m. August 29, 1808 ) Mary Ann Cabot ( baptised May 9, 1784July 25, 1809 ), with whom he had three children.

In 1833 he had married Juliana Isabella Mary Pennant ( d. 1842 ), eldest daughter and co-heiress of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant of Penrhyn Castle and in 1841 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Pennant.

Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).

* Mary MacKillop ( 1842 – 1909 )-Roman Catholic nun and the only Australian saint, born on Brunswick Street.