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 )

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (, October 26, 1842 – April 13, 1904 ) was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad.

Vereshchagin was born at Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russia in 1842 as the middle of three brothers.

* 1842 – Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician ( d. 1927 )

However, the real birth of Russian opera came with Mikhail Glinka and his two great operas A Life for the Tsar ( 1836 ) and Ruslan and Lyudmila ( 1842 ).

In 1842 he was appointed professor of mineralogy in the university of Dorpat ( Tartu ), and henceforth gave attention to the geology and mineralogy of the Russian Empire.

The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, perhaps as a copy of similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military.

** Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist ( born 1842 )

These formulae are variously called the Plemelj formulae, the Sokhotsky-Plemelj formulae, or sometimes ( mainly in German literature ) the Plemelj-Sokhotsky formulae, after the Russian mathematician Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski ( Юлиан Карл Васильевич Сохоцкий ) ( 1842 – 1927 ).

Julian Karol Sochocki (, ; February 2, 1842, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – December 14, 1927, Leningrad, Soviet Union ) was a Polish mathematician.

Peter Kropotkin ( 1842 – 1921 ) was a Russian prince and anarchist.

From 1842, the Warsaw mint issued regular type Russian coins along with some coins denominated in both grosz and kopeck.

In 1842, Russian coins were introduced, supplemented by 40 groszy ( 20 kopeck ) and 50 groszy ( 25 kopeck ) coins.

Other 19th century formulations of this idea include Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, who wrote in 1842, " The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

Lt. Lavrenty Zagoskin, from the Imperial Russian Navy sent to Alaska to scout locations for trading posts, reported the village as " Ikalikguigmyut " in 1842.

The construction was overseen by the Russian architects Vasily Stasov and Nikolai Yefimov in 1842 – 1851 and incorporated Quarenghi's wing with the Raphael Loggias.

Carlo Andrea, count Pozzo di Borgo ( March 8, 1764 – February 15, 1842 ), was a Corsican politician who became a Russian diplomat.

* House of Fabergé, a Russian jewelry firm founded by Gustav Faberge in 1842

However, in the course of his meetings with exiled dissidents during his travel, notably Nikolai Mikhailovich Yadrintsev ( 1842 – 1894 ), Kennan changed his mind about the Russian imperial system.

The Snake Island Lighthouse was built in the fall of 1842 by the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Empire.

During the nineteenth century, Afghanistan was invaded twice from British India, during the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838 – 1842 and again in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 – 1880, both times with the intention of limiting Russian influence in the country and quelling local tribal leaders.

* Plyushkin is a fictional Russian hoarder in Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls, published in 1842.

In 1842, the Russian border was on the other side of the Aral Sea from Afghanistan ; but five years later the Tsar's outposts had moved to the lower reaches of the Amu Darya.

On 18 July 1842, Platon de Tchihatcheff ( Чихачёв, Chikhachev ), a former Russian officer staying in Luchon, left from Bagnères-de-Luchon accompanied by guides Pierre Sanio de Luz, Luchonnais Bernard Arrazau and Pierre Redonnet.

Zaliv Rumiantsev continued to be the main entre ' port for the Russian Colony until January, 1842, and the earliest European structures built at Bodega Bay were the wharf, warehouse and barracks of the Russian-American Company.

It was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842.