from: 1742 till: 1743 color: w text :" Al-Mostadi "

* Al-Mostadi ( 1738 – 1740 ) ( first time )

* Al-Mostadi ( 1747 – 1748 ) ( third time )

* 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman ( d. 1742 )

* 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general ( d. 1786 )

* 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

* 1720 – 1742 Edmond Halley

* 1742 – 1762 James Bradley

* Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg: 1667 – 1742

* 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1742 )

* Pope Pius VII ( 1742 – 1823, r. 1800 – 23 )

* 1742 – Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal ( d. 1819 )

* 1709 – Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, queen consort of Spain ( d. 1742 )

* 1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist ( d. 1742 )

* 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* Dositej Obradović ( Serbian, 1742 – 1811 )

Henry Dundas ( 1742 – 1811 ) dominated political affairs in the latter part of the century.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

* 1742 – 1743: Al-Mustadhi ( règne )

* Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British Prime Minister, 1742 – 1743, who gave his name to many of the places called Wilmington.

The leader of the Whigs was Robert Walpole, who maintained control of the government in the period 1721 – 1742 ; his protégé was Henry Pelham ( 1743 – 54 ).

Previously in 1742, the 14-year-old Peter was proclaimed King of Finland during the Russo-Swedish War ( 1741 – 1743 ), when Russian troops held Finland.

1742 saw the founding of the Frederick Academy, which became a university in 1743, but was moved that same year to Erlangen after serious riots because of the adverse reaction of the population.

The first organizing meeting took place on 7 November 1742, the first scientific meeting was called on 2 January 1743.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

After he was married in 1742 to Elizabeth Quincy, he fathered four children, including three daughters: one born in 1743, Abigail born in 1744 and another born in 1745.

Britain was drawn diplomatically into that conflict in 1742 as an ally of Austria and an opponent of France and Prussia, but open hostilities between them did not take place until 1743 at Dettingen, and war was only formally declared between France and Britain in March 1744.

Construction of the Old Church ( on the property ) was started in 1743 and was designed by Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, a Lutheran minister who had immigrated to the colony in 1742 and who founded many congregations in the area.

Zedler also published new works such as the trade lexicon Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer Der Kaufmannschafft ( 1741 – 1743, 4 volumes and 1 supplement volume ), stock exchange laws Corpus Juris Cambialis ( Johann Gottlieb Siegels, 1742, 2 volumes ) and the Historical-Political-Geographical Atlas of the whole world ( 1744 – 1749, 13 volumes ), published under the name of the Leipzig bookseller, Johann Samuel Heinsius the Elder.

Lawrence Washington returned from the war in late 1742, buried his father in April 1743, married into the Fairfax family and took up residence at his " Mount Vernon " in July 1743.

In 1742 Maurepas suggested that he be replaced and in 1743 La Verendrye resigned.

In 1742 and 1743, he again visited England and quarrelled with Warburton.

* Шпилевская Н. Описание войны между Россией и Швецией в Финляндии в 1741, 1742 и 1743 гг.

Description of the War between Russia and Sweden in Finland in 1741, 1742 and 1743.

In 1743 John Roberts and Huw Bedward from Y Rhiw were found guilty of the murder of two shipwrecked sailors on the beach at Porth Neigwl on 6 January 1742, and hanged ; Jonathan Morgan had been killed by a knife thrust into the nape of his neck, and Edward Halesham, described as a boy, had been choked to death.

* The Lord Gower ( 1742 – 1743 )

Anton Heinrich ( 1679 – 1742 ) and Karl Heinrich ( 1681 – 1749 ) both served as violinists at the Salzburg court, and the latter was promoted to Kapellmeister in 1743.

Serving with the French armies in the War of the Austrian Succession, he distinguished himself in the campaigns of 1742, 1743 and 1744, and at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.

He was Surveyor-General of Works from 1737 to 1742, was Member for Windsor from 1741 to 1761 and a Lord of the Treasury in 1743.

Moreover, through Bestuzhev's efforts, the credit of the Prussian king ( whom he regarded as more dangerous than France ) at the Russian court fell steadily, and the vice-chancellor prepared the way for an alliance with Austria by acceding to the Treaty of Breslau of 11 June 1742 on 1 November 1743 ).

by John Ernest Galliard, London: J. Wilcox, 1742 or 1743.

He served as the nominal head of government from 1742 until his death in 1743, but was merely a figurehead for the true leader of the government, Lord Carteret, the Secretary of State for the Northern Department.