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 – 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 )

The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War ( 1840 ) led to the Treaty of Nanjing ( 1842 ), under which Hong Kong was ceded and opium import was legitimized.

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

With the cession of Hong Kong under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, the firm set up its headquarters on the island and grew rapidly.

The signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842 later adjusted the U. S. boundary northward to include the strategically important site of " Fort Blunder.

The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement.

The war ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, which allowed the British to dictate opening the treaty ports, Shanghai included, for international trade.

; 1842: Treaty of Nanking.

* Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

* On August 29, 1842, the first of two Opium Wars ended between China and Britain with the Treaty of Nanking.

* The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, settled the dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border between the United States and Canada.

It would end three years later with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking on 29 August 1842.

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

The Treaty of Nanking ( or Nanjing ) was signed on 29 August 1842 to mark the end of the First Opium War ( 1839 – 42 ) between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Qing Dynasty of China.

Chang Hsi and the Treaty of Nanking, 1842.

Xiamen was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking ( 1842 ) at the end of the war.

The first treaty ports in China were British and were established at the conclusion of the First Opium War by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842.

In an effort to expand their privileges in China, Britain demanded the Qing authorities renegotiate the Treaty of Nanking ( signed in 1842 ), citing their most favoured nation status.

The British House of Commons on 3 March passed a resolution by 263 to 249 against the Government saying: That this House has heard with concern of the conflicts which have occurred between the British and Chinese authorities on the Canton River ; and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the papers which have been laid on the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow, and that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of our commercial relations with China.

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, resolved the several Canadian boundary disputes between the Great Britain and the United States, particularly over the exact border between New Brunswick and the State of Maine of the United States and the exact boundary between Canada and the State of Minnesota from Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods.

China was defeated, and in 1842 agreed to the provisions of the Treaty of Nanjing.

Captain William Hobson RN ( 26 September 1792 – 10 September 1842 ) was the first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The case was finally disposed of by U. S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster and Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, in the course of their negotiations leading to the Webster – Ashburton Treaty of 1842.