The town was formed in 1842 from the town of Liberty.

* The Liberty Bell, included stories such as " The Quadroons " ( 1842 )

In 1842, Garnet became pastor of the Liberty Street Presbyterian church, a position he would hold for six years.

1832 first edition, printed by Bradbury and Evans, Edward Moxon, London. 1842 title page, with added poems " Queen Liberty " and " Song-To the Men of England ", J. Watson, London. The Masque of Anarchy is a political poem written in 1819 ( see 1819 in poetry ) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year.

Hyde Park Corner in 1842, looking east towards Piccadilly.

* Corner Franklin and Bowen streets: First public executions took place in Melbourne on 20 January 1842, of two Tasmanian aborigines: Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, who had conducted a successful guerilla style resistance campaign around Western Port.

Hyde Park Corner in 1842

Tattersall's at Hyde Park Corner in 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.

American missionaries from New England established a mission at Baraka ( now Libreville ) in 1842.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

In 1815, Boston's Handel and Haydn Society was founded, in 1842 the New York Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic were formed, and in 1858, the Hallé Orchestra was formed in Manchester.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

* September 26 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand ( d. 1842 )

Early European interest in the island followed discovery of copper in the remote north of the island, where New Zealand's earliest mines were established at Miners Head in 1842.

His son, George William Clinton ( 1807 – 1885 ), served as Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1842 – 1843.

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.

The 1838 and 1842 Treaties of Buffalo Creek were treaties with New York Indians, such as the Seneca Nation, Mohawk nation, Cayuga nation, and Oneida Indian Nation, which covered land sales of tribal reservations under the US Indian Removal program, by which they planned to move most eastern tribes to Indian Territory.

New roads are opened, including the way of King Ferdinand ( now Via Vittorio Emanuele ), in 1842 the Bridge of Lions is erected near the old Roman bridge Arena ; installed gas lighting at night.

* John B. Weber ( 1842 – 1926 ), U. S. Representative from New York.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d ' Urville ( 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842 ) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.

The orchestra was founded by the American-born conductor Ureli Corelli Hill in 1842, with the aid of the then famous and feted Irish composer, William Vincent Wallace, Wallace, as the Philharmonic Society of New York – the third Philharmonic on American soil since 1799, declaring as its purpose " the advancement of instrumental music.

" The first concert of the New York Philharmonic took place on December 7, 1842 in the Apollo Rooms on lower Broadway before an audience of 600.

* Letitia Christian Tyler, ( 1790 – 1842 ), born in New Kent County, first wife of president John Tyler

It had been settled by New Mexico pioneers in 1842.

In 1842, John Sutter leased part of his Rancho New Helvetia land to Theodore Cordua, a native of Mecklenburg in Germany, who raised livestock and, in 1843, built a home and trading post he called New Mecklenburg.

William Owen ( 1802 – 1842 ), Robert Owen's second oldest son, was involved in New Harmony's business and community affairs.

He died in New Harmony in 1842.

The area that would eventually become known as Marble Hill was established in 1842 as New California.

" It was renamed again in 1842 in honor of Trenton, New Jersey.

Hamilton was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1842, from portions of the now-defunct Nottingham Township.

* Samuel Lewis Southard ( 1787 – 1842 ), served as U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the 10th Governor of New Jersey.

The following high schools were also established: Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania ( 1842 ); St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago ( 1909 ); St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California ( 1922 ); Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, California ( 1925 ); Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, Oklahoma ( 1926 ); Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania ( 1953 ); St. Augustine College Preparatory School in South Jersey ( 1959 ); Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts ( 1961 ) and in 1962, Providence Catholic High School, which serves the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.

Production had ended at the New Jersey corporation by 1842.

George Latimer ran away to freedom in Trenton, New Jersey in October, 1842, along with his wife Rebecca, who had been the slave of another man.

While this school was founded in 1842, by 1909 two Augustinian houses and a school had been established in Chicago, 1922 in San Diego, by 1925 a school in Ojai and Los Angeles ; 1926 a school in Oklahoma ; in 1947 Merrimack College ; in 1953 a school in Pennsylvania ; 1959 a school in New Jersey and in 1962 a school in Illinois.

Adam Exton, the baker of Trenton, New Jersey, emigrated to America from Lancashire, England, in 1842.

Samuel Lewis Southard ( June 9, 1787June 26, 1842 ) was a prominent U. S. statesman of the early 19th century, serving as a U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the tenth Governor of New Jersey.

Henry Southard ( October 7, 1747 – May 22, 1842 ) was a United States Representative from the state of New Jersey.

Following the death of U. S. Senator Samuel L. Southard he was appointed to the United States Senate starting July 2, 1842 and was re-elected by the New Jersey Legislature as a Whig in 1845, but lost in 1851, ending his service on March 4.

Malvern Preparatory School was founded in 1842 alongside Villanova University, and by 1909 two Augustinian houses and a school had been established in Chicago, 1922 in San Diego, by 1925 this school ; and Los Angeles ; 1926 a school in Oklahoma ; in 1947 a college in Massachusetts ; in 1953 a school in Pennsylvania ; 1959 a school in New Jersey and in 1962 a school in Illinois.

* William Appleton Potter ( 1842 – 1909 ) was an American architect who designed numerous buildings, including the Church of the Presidents ( New Jersey ) in Elberon, New Jersey.

* William Appleton Potter ( 1842 – 1909 ) was an American architect who designed numerous buildings, including the Church of the Presidents ( New Jersey ) in Elberon, New Jersey.

* William Appleton Potter ( 1842 – 1909 ) was an American architect who designed numerous buildings, including the Church of the Presidents ( New Jersey ) in Elberon, New Jersey.

Between 1815 and 1842, additional docks and wharfs were built at Giants Grave, extending the length slightly, and the canal was extended to Briton Ferry by the construction of the Jersey Canal in 1832, which was about long, and was built without an Act of Parliament by the Earl of Jersey.

Ogden's son, Elias B. D. Ogden served as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1842 until his death in 1865.

John Nathan Cobb was born in Oxford, New Jersey, on 20 February 1868, the son of Samuel Spencer Cobb ( 1842 ‒ 1921 ), a railroad engineer, and Louise Catherine Richard ( 1845 ?‒ 1918 ), a native of Belfort, France.