During the First Anglo-Afghan War, British India invaded Afghanistan in 1838 but withdraw in 1842.

During the First Opium War ( 1839 – 1842 ), British forces occupied the city.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

During the Second Seminole War ( 1836 – 1842 ) a large sugar plantation in what is today the city of Daytona Beach was burned by the Seminole.

During 1842 the majority against repeal was 303, by 1845 this had decreased to 132.

During 1842 in response to the blue book published by Villiers ' 1840 Committee on Import Duties, Peel gave the concession of modifying the sliding scale by reducing the maximum duty to 20 shillings when the price decreased to 51 shillings or less.

During the first half of the 19th century, the academic strength of the college diminished: scholarships were sometimes not awarded because of a lack of suitable candidates, and numbers fell: there were only seven new entrants in 1842.

During this period he issued Lieder der Gegenwart (“ Songs of the present ,” 1842 ) and Zensurflüchtlinge (“ Refugees from censoring ,” 1843 )-the poetical fruits of his political enthusiasm.

During 1842, Taylor, together with his Cambridge friends Frederick Ponsonby ( Earl of Bessborough ), Charles G. Taylor and William Bolland, formed the Old Stagers, which is recognised as the oldest amateur drama society still performing.

During these years of active public life, his interest in Greek history and philosophy had increased, and after a trip to Italy in 1842, he severed his connection with the bank and devoted himself to literature.

During border skirmishes with Texas in the early 1840s, Ampudia commanded the 350 man garrison of Ciudad Mier which was attacked on December 26, 1842 by Texan militia.

During the latter stages of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( in 1841 and 1842 ), Aga Khan I and his cavalry officers provided assistance to General Nott in Kandahar Province and also to General England in his advance from Sindh to join Nott.

During 1842, the City Police moved its headquarters from Corporation's Guildhall to 26 Old Jewry, where it remained until it was relocated to Wood Street in 2002.

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.

During the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1839, the British army invaded the area but withdrew in 1842, although thousands of them were killed during a surprise ambush on their way to Jalalabad.

During the reign of James I part of the Blackfriars Monastery was appropriated for use as a classroom, and the Blackfriars remained the School's home until 1842 when the building was deemed to be unsafe.

During 1842 and 1843, there was an economic recession in the Port Phillip District, and Williamstown's population somewhat declined.

During their seven-year residence in Cairo from 1842 to 1849, Lane Poole wrote The Englishwoman in Egypt, while her son was imbibing an early taste for Egyptian antiquities.

" During and after this time he published several books, including: The Three Last Things, 1839, an essay on resurrection, judgment and final retribution ; The Great Awakening, 1842, a history of the religious revival in America in the mid to late 18th century ( some scholars attribute the well-known name of that movement to Rev.

Problems arose concerning the special dispensation granted to the Nauvoo Lodge, brought by Bodley Lodge No. 1, and on August 11, 1842 the special dispensation was suspended by the Grand Master until the annual Communication of the Illinois Grand Lodge " During the short period covering its activities, this Lodge initiated 286 candidates and raised almost as many.

During the Minas and São Paulo Revolution that was happened between 1841 and 1842 a lot of residents ran away with the purpose to escape from the military draft and to discover new areas.

During Tucker's two-year term ( 1842 – 1844 ), the Democratic Party remained divided over the bond issue.

During the year 1842 / 3, he gave a course of lectures on zoology at the Franklin Institute.

During the 1840s, Casa Ricordi grew to be the largest music publisher in southern Europe and in 1842 the company created the musical journal the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

During his minority, Afonso V was placed under the regency of his mother in accordance with a will of his late father.

During his marriage, he had called himself " King and Emperor of Castile, Toledo, Aragón, Pamplona, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza " in recognition of his rights as Urraca's husband ; of his inheritance of the lands of his father, including the kingdom of his great-uncle Gonzalo ; and his prerogative to conquer Andalusia from the Muslims.

During the reign of his father, he was the procurator general of the Crown.

During this time, Aage Bohr travelled with his father, acting as his assistant and secretary.

During his youth he was " shaped " by his father and was regarded as an outstanding member of the Bahá ’ í exile community.

During the two year absence of his father ` Abdu ' l-Bahá took up the duty of managing the affairs of the family, before his age of maturity ( 14 in middle-eastern society ) and was known to be occupied with reading and, at a time of hand-copied scriptures being the primary means of publishing, was also engaged in copying the writings of the Báb.

During his reign, Claudius revived the rumor that his father Drusus was actually the illegitimate son of Augustus, to give the false appearance that Augustus was Claudius ' paternal grandfather.

During the depths of the Depression, his father had to accept a job as a theater usher.

During the decade, a range of other storylines featured, such as the bigamy of Peter Barlow and his addiction to alcohol, later in the decade, Maya Sharma's revenge on former lover Devendra Alahan, Katy Harris murdering her father and subsequently committing suicide, Charlie Stubbs's psychological abuse of Shelley Unwin, and the deaths of Mike Baldwin, Vera Duckworth and Fred Elliott.

During his time there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853.

During his time there, Poe lost touch with Royster and also became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts.

During the incident, O ' Hara received a facial scar when Lee's father slashed him with a knife.

During his early education, he attended The Pike School ( where his mother taught art ) and enrolled in the Brooks School ( where his father taught ) for one year in North Andover, Massachusetts.

During his reign, there was a significant increase in the size of the Mughal Empire, half a dozen rebellions were crushed, prisoners of war were released, and the work of his father, Akbar, continued to flourish.

During his early life, he experienced Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father.

During the American Revolution, the father Jean Audubon had been imprisoned by the British Empire.

During her marriage, she bore her husband two sons, Otto ( who later succeeded his father as Margrave of Brandenburg ) in 1149, and Henry ( who inherited the Counties of Tangermünde and Gardelegen ) in 1150.

During the 1970s, Marvin resided off and on in Woodstock, caring for his dying father, and would make regular trips to Cairns, Australia to engage in marlin fishing.

During one of his stays in England, Michael's future father married Anna Dorothea Janasz ( Dora ), the daughter of a wealthy immigrant landholder from Poland.

During World War II, Miyazaki's father, Katsuji, was director of Miyazaki Airplane, owned by his brother ( Hayao Miyazaki's uncle ), which made rudders for A6M Zero fighter planes.

During the 2000s, Kim Jong Il made no serious effort to revive the Stalinist economic system his father had spent years building.

During Richard's reign, royal expenditure on castles declined from the levels spent under Henry II, Richard's father.

During weddings of this period, a father would give his son-in-law a pair of shoes, to symbolize the transfer of authority.