Burlington was a governor of the charity, but did not formally take part in planning the construction of this large Bloomsbury children's home completed in 1742.

Although she did not receive a formal education, her mother taught her and her sisters Mary ( 1739 – 1811 ) and Elizabeth ( 1742 – 1816, known as Betsy ) to read, write and cipher ; her father's, uncle's and grandfather's large libraries enabled the sisters to study English and French literature.

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.

Buckland was first settled in 1742 as " No Town ", as it was not currently part of either the village of Charlemont or Ashfield, which the land belonged to as one large town.

In the eighteenth century alone, there were fourteen large uprisings, the most important of which were that of Juan Santos Atahualpa in 1742, and the Sierra Uprising of Túpac Amaru II in 1780.

Beyond the modern warship stands a crane constructed in 1742, used for mounting masts to large sailing vessels.

Prince Dmitry Romodanovsky served his sentence in Berezovsky District ; Count Andrei Osterman was exiled here in 1742 ; and the large family of the princes Dolgorukov, in 1798.

Thomas Sr. was a frequent moderator of town meetings, and accepted on behalf of the city of Boston the gift of Faneuil Hall ( a large market building and public meeting space ) from Peter Faneuil in 1742.

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

* 1656 – Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician ( d. 1742 )

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

* May 28 – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister ( b. 1742 )

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Walpole continued to govern until his resignation in 1742 prompted by the Battle of Cartagena disaster, making his administration the longest in British history.

In 1742 the Spanish launched an attempt to seize the British colony of Georgia.

The British force of 16, 000 men under John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair had landed at Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands on 10 July 1742.

Named after British cellist Jacqueline Du Pré, an honorary fellow of the College, the JdP was the first purpose-built concert hall to be built in Oxford since the Holywell Music Room in 1742.

Although initially Britain did not actively intervene, the presence of a sizable French army near the border of the Austrian Netherlands compelled the British to send an expedition to help defend the territory of their Austrian ally in 1742.

The young nation's artists generally emulated the style of British art, which they knew through prints and the paintings of English-trained immigrants such as John Smibert ( 1688 – 1751 ) and John Wollaston ( active 1742 – 75 ).

A more lasting result of this formal relation was that Edward and other Miskito rulers who followed him allowed the British to establish settlements and plantations within his realm, and issued the first land grants to this effect in 1742.

Charles Rivington ( 1688 – February 22, 1742 ), British publisher, eldest son of Thurston Rivington, was born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 1688.

Despite British troops having been engaged on the European Continent since 1742, it was not until 1747 that Carleton and his regiment were despatched to Flanders.

John Aislabie or Aslabie (; 4 December 1670 – 18 June 1742 ) was a British politician, notable for his involvement in the South Sea Bubble and for creating the water garden at Studley Royal.

So from 1742 British Honduras was a dependency directly under the Governor of Jamaica.

In 1742, Benjamin Robins, a British artillery engineer, explained deviations in the trajectories of musket balls in terms of the Magnus effect.

Along with the defeat of a Spanish Invasion of Georgia in 1742, this strengthened the British position in North America.

* Thurloe's ' Collection of State Papers ', ( edited by Thomas Birch, 1742 ), as part of British History Online * John Thurloe in Spartacus Educational

In March 1742, the British who were based in Fort St George in Madras sent a modest hamper to Nizam ul-mulk in recognition of his leadership of the most important of the Mughal successor states.

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire PC ( 30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793 ), known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era.

He succeeded his father as second Viscount Hillsborough in 1742 ( as this was an Irish peerage he was able to continue to sit in the British House of Commons ).

In 1742 he became physician to the Earl of Stair, then commanding the British army in Flanders.

In 1742, he was appointed Commodore-Governor of the British colony of Newfoundland.

Vernon was replaced in the fleet by comamdo Chaloner Ogle and was forced to return to England in 1742 where he reported that the triumph of which was not previously reported.

Vernon remained in the Caribbean until October 1742, before heading back to Britain and Chaloner Ogle taking command of a very sickly fleet that had less than half its sailors fit for duty.

The return of Vernon's fleet in 1742 marked the end of major offensive operations in the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

In June 1742 a squadron of Spanish galleys, which had taken refuge in the Bay of Saint Tropez, was burnt by the fire ships of Mathews ' fleet.

In foreign affairs, Tanucci kept Naples out of wars and entanglements, though in 1742 an English fleet off the coast helped ensure Neapolitan neutrality in the war between Spain and Austria.

His fleet captured one in 1742, and Lt. Peircy Brett of HMS Centurion made a detailed sketch of the proa.

In June 1742 a squadron of Spanish galleys, which had taken refuge in the Bay of Saint Tropez, was burnt by the fire ships of Mathews ' fleet.

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.

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.

Several reconstructions of early performances have been recorded: the 1742 Dublin version by Jean-Claude Malgoire in 1980 and several recordings of the 1754 Foundling Hospital version, including those under Hogwood ( 1979 ), Andrew Parrott ( 1989 ), and Paul McCreesh.

The smaller territories of Sulzbach and Neuburg came to Bavaria in 1742, while the city of Regensburg, an Imperial Free City, was not joined with the rest of the region until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and the end of the short-lived Principality of Regensburg under Carl von Dalberg, which existed from 1803 to 1810.

In 1738 appeared Versuch in poetischen Fabeln und Erzählungen ; in 1742 a collection of his lyric poems, under the title Sammlung neuer Oden und Lieder ; and his Moralische Gedichte in 1750.

In 1742 it fell into the hands of the Prussians, and in December 1805 the Bavarians under Wrede were defeated near the town.

After the majority of Silesia was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession after 1740, the remaining Silesian territory still under the control of the Habsburg Monarchy became known as Austrian Silesia with its capital in Troppau ( 1742 – 1918 ).

In 1742, the island came under the jurisdiction of Dumangas – now known as Iloilo, until 1751 when the Augustinian Order was replaced by the Jesuits, after which the Dominican order took over Guimaras.

The towns founded in this period include Curitiba ( 1668 ), Florianópolis ( 1675 ), Rio Grande ( 1736 ), Porto Alegre ( 1742 ) and others, and helped keep Southern Brazil firmly under Portuguese control.

A protégé of Sir Robert Walpole, he served under him for more than twenty years until 1742.

After the victory of King Frederick II of Prussia in the First Silesian War ( 1740 – 1742 ), Schwiebus came under Prussian administration.

After Frederick II of Prussia had conquered Silesia in 1742, his fierce opponent Maria Theresa of Austria once again stroke back in the course of the Seven Years ' War: In 1760 Austrian troops under the command of field marshal Laudon invaded the province and on June 23 defeated a Prussian corps under Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué at the Battle of Landeshut.

Once Silesia had come under the control of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742, the Prussian government took an active interest in promoting the pottery industry and intervened in favor of increased production.

The Kingdom of Prussia had clashed with Habsburg Empire for Silesia and victorious Frederic The Great, the king of Prussia, seizes Silesia under the agreement from 1742 concluding the war in a favor of the Prussians.

For most of this period ( at first under the leadership of Sir William Wyndham ), the Tories retained party cohesion, with occasional hopes of regaining office, particularly at the accession of George II ( 1727 ) and the downfall of the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742.

Following its foundation as an early monastic settlement, the town has a long tradition of radical protestantism and was the scene of major revivals under the leadership of James Robe in 1742 and William Chalmers Burns in 1839, part of the Second Great Awakening.

Between 1742 and 1748 he studied under the Jesuits at the College of St. Omer in Flanders, established for the education of English Catholics after the Protestant Reformation.

The Battle of Chotusitz, or Chotusice, sometimes called the Battle of Czaslau, was fought on May 17, 1742 in Bohemia between the Austrians under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and the Prussians under Frederick the Great.

In 1742, as the Fort was nearing completion, the British under Oglethorpe approached the inlet with 12 ships.

Although most of Silesia had passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 after the First Silesian War, Teschen remained under Austrian control as part of Austrian Silesia.