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* 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
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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 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
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 ).
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.
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.
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 ).
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He is also associated with the first recorded instance of a cycling traffic offence, when a Glasgow newspaper in 1842 reported an accident in which an anonymous " gentleman from Dumfries-shire ... bestride a velocipede ... of ingenious design " knocked over a little girl in Glasgow and was fined five shillings.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first visited Scotland in 1842, five years after her accession and two years after their marriage.
However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.
His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois ( 1827 ), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot ( 1831 ), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists.
Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover — making it the first known American prototype comic book.
Although Darwin discussed evolutionary ideas with him from 1842, Lyell continued to reject evolution in each of the first nine editions of the Principles.
Doppler first proposed the effect in 1842 in his treatise " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).
Shah Shujah Durrani | Shah Shujah became the last Durrani dynasty | Durrani ruler, who first reigned between 1803 and 1809, and again from 1839 to 1842.
Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.
Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.
The first Anglo-Afghan War ( 1839 – 1842 ) resulted in the destruction of a British army ; it is remembered as an example of the ferocity of Afghan resistance to foreign rule.
Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.
In 1842 Davis attended the Democratic convention, and in 1843 became a candidate for the state House of Representatives, losing his first election.
It was only in 1839, however, that the first part of this publication appeared, and it was completed in 1842.
* 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities ( historical ), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs ( lullabies ).
" The Revels account was first printed by Peter Cunningham in 1842, and, while its authenticity was once challenged, is now regarded as genuine ( as authenticated by A. E.
British countess and mathematician Ada Lovelace is popularly credited as history's first programmer, as she was the first to express an algorithm intended for implementation on a computer, Charles Babbage's analytical engine, in October 1842, intended for the calculation of Bernoulli numbers.
It took its name from the city of Pilsen ( Plzeň in Czech ), Bohemia, now Czech Republic, where it was first produced in 1842.
The Bürger Brauerei recruited the Bavarian brewer Josef Groll ( 1813 – 1887 ) who, using new techniques and paler malts, presented his first batch of modern pilsner on 5 October 1842.
On March 5, 1842, a Mexican force of over 500 men, led by Ráfael Vásquez, invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution.
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