Worcester County was created by the division of Somerset County in 1742.

In 1742, Worcester County was carved out of the eastern half of old Somerset County and Snow Hill, centrally located in the new county and at the head of navigation on the Pocomoke River, was made the county seat.

Worcester County was separated from Somerset in 1742, and by 1774 Sandy Hill had grown large enough to merit a chapel of ease within All Hallows ' Parish, today called Holy Cross Chapel.

* 1742 Worcester County-named for an Earl of Worcester.

* Michael Cresap ( 1742 – 1775 ), born in Allegany County, American Revolutionary War officer.

Louisa County was established in 1742 from Hanover County.

* William Lynch ( 1742 – 1820 ) from Virginia claimed that the phrase was first used for a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbors in Pittsylvania County.

Manchester Township, deriving its name from the English Duke of Manchester, was laid out in 1742 by Thomas Cookson, a representative of the Lancaster County Courts, because at that time York County was a part of Lancaster County.

In 1742 he was created Baron Edgcumbe, of Mount Edgcumbe in the County of Devon, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

On Sir Robert Walpole's retirement from the House of Commons in 1742, he was himself raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Walpole, of Houghton in the County of Norfolk, Viscount Walpole and Earl of Orford, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

In June 1763 Charles married, to Margaret Tilghman ( 1742 – 1817 ), daughter of Matthew Tilghman of Talbot County.

The Baronetcy, of Bodvean in the County of Carnarvon, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 25 October 1742 for the first Baron's grandfather Thomas Wynn.

It comprised the eastern parts of the historic Lower Silesia region and the former County of Kladsko, both conquered by Prussia in 1742.

* Cess Tax Books: County of Lanark, 1742 / 43, South Lanarkshire Council Archives.

On September 25, 1768, John Cadwalader married Elizabeth Lloyd ( 1742 – 1776 ), the daughter of Edward Lloyd, of Talbot County, Maryland.

Morgan Morgan was the Presiding judge when the first Frederick County Court met in Winchester in 1742.

The Wynn Baronetcy, of Bodvean in the County of Carnarvon, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 25 October 1742.

Benjamin Logan ( c. 1742 – December 11, 1802 ) was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Shelby County, Kentucky.

John Harvie was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1742, to farmer and Scottish immigrant Col. John Harvie, Sr. ( 1706 – 1767 ) and Martha Gaines Harvie ( 1719 – 1802 ).

The charter was renewed in 1742, 1764, and 1781.

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 ).

The prohibitive duty was gradually reduced and finally abolished in 1742.

* was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1742 and sold 1784.

He was involved in, and wrote about, local politics in 1742.

Under the regency of the Bavarian electors Munich was an important centre of baroque life but also had to suffer under Habsburg occupations in 1704 and 1742.

For over 40 years after Walpole's fall in 1742, there was widespread ambivalence about the position.

The prohibitive duty was gradually reduced and finally abolished in 1742.

The island ’ s first hospital was built on its present site in 1742.

Most of Silesia was conquered by Prussia in 1742, later becoming part of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany up to 1945.

In 1742, most of Silesia was seized by King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession and subsequently made the Prussian Province of Silesia.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

In February 1742, following poor election results and the disaster at Cartagena, Walpole was at last forced to succumb to the long-continued attacks of opposition, resigned and took a peerage.

Year 1742 ( MDCCXLII ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

It was officially awarded township status in 1742, and it is still the major town for the region.

In 1742, the Palatinate was inherited by Duke Charles Theodore of Sulzbach.

An early critic of social contract theory was Rousseau's friend, the philosopher David Hume, who in 1742 published an essay " Of Civil Liberty ", in whose second part, entitled, " Of the Original Contract ", he stressed that the concept of a " social contract " was a convenient fiction:

Formal trading rights were introduced in 1614, and the city was incorporated through a royal charter in 1742.

After the rebellion and liberation in 1660, Molde became the administrative headquarter of Romsdalen Amt and was incorporated through a royal charter in 1742.

The coat-of-arms was granted on 27 June 1742.

In 1742, most of Silesia was annexed from Austria by the Kingdom of Prussia during the First Silesian War.

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 ).

Elizabeth invited her young nephew to Saint Petersburg, where he was received into the Orthodox Church and proclaimed heir on 7 November 1742.