Goldbach is most noted for his correspondence with Leibniz, Euler, and Bernoulli, especially in his 1742 letter to Euler stating his Goldbach's conjecture.

In 1773 King Frederick II of Prussia, having conquered and annexed Silesia in 1742, had St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin built for the Catholic Upper Silesian immigrants, now the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin.

Finally, he set an example for future Prime Ministers by resigning his offices in 1742 after a vote of confidence, which he won by just 3 votes.

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.

He spoke in favour of the motion in 1742 for an inquiry into the last ten years of Walpole's administration.

* October 14 – William Hooper, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Continental Congressman for North Carolina ( b. 1742 )

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

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.

At the end of 1742, Gralath had gathered a group of learned men for his purpose, an Experimental Physics Society ( Societas Physicae Experimentalis ), one of the oldest research societies of its type.

In 1742, the area was conquered by the Prussian Hohenzollerns in Silesian Wars, setting the stage for the Prussian industrial might.

The first Fairfax courthouse was established in 1742 near present-day Tyson's Corner, and is the namesake for Old Courthouse Road.

It was named for Richard Edgcumbe, a Member of Parliament from 1701 to 1742 and a lord of the treasury, who became 1st Baron Edgcumbe in 1742.

This had been the coach road when the house was occupied, as I understand, by a Major John BRITTON, who, according to the account of the old farmer, was said to have ruined himself by working the coal upon his own estate half brother, William JONES of Stowey, baled him out with a loan of £ 1, 200, in return for which BRITTON left JONES his High Littleton estates and lordship of the manor on his death in 1742.

* 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.

In 1742, he received a grant from the Piankeshaw for to the north and east of Poste Vincennes.

Warehouse Site ( CE-390 ); Customs House Site ( CE-391 ); Charlestown Wharf Site ( CE-392 ); and Charlestown Wharf ( CE-1297 ): In 1742, when the colonial Maryland Assembly enacted a law to build Charles Town at Long Point on the Northeast River, it also enacted a law to build a wharf for shipping and commerce.

In 1742, he paid five shillings for a piece of land upon which the town of Edmonston eventually developed.

Residents began petitioning for separation from Hampton as early as 1719, but township was not granted until 1742 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, following separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts.

The TISCO Headquarters, constructed in 1742 for the Union Iron Works, is the oldest office building in New Jersey.

Finding the necessary components nearby for making iron ( water, limestone and timber for charcoal ), Grubb built the Cornwall Iron Furnace and began production in 1742.

But in October 1742, its 18 English inhabitants departed for Philadelphia.

Between 1742 and 1751, a series of follies, including a Gothic ruin, a cascade, and a prospect or belvedere known as the Belmount Tower, were constructed for him.

Before the first performance Handel made numerous revisions to his manuscript score, in part to match the forces available for the 1742 Dublin premiere ; it is probable that his originally conceived version of the work was not performed in his lifetime.

The windmill named De Hoop, which was built in 1742 and which was converted to a corn mill in 1972, is open for visitors every Saturday, weekday only on appointment.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

Similar schemes, among which those of Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius in 1742 and of Baron van Lijnden van Hemmen in 1820 are worthy of special mention, were brought forward from time to time.

Despite these efforts, weather and hostility among indigenous tribes slowed production, and Renault sold his lands in 1742 having made little profit.

An additional portion was purchased from Col. William Smith and divided among settlers in 1742.

In 1742 a Sugar House, was built against the wall of the College, this structure was a fire risk and was the cause of great anxiety among the heralds.

In 1719 Cardinal Damian Hugo von Schönborn became the new Bishop, and after settling in he commissioned in ( 1722 ), among others, the new baroque château and the new Peter's Church ( from 1742 ).

His vast collections in botany and zoology he willed to the Senate of Bologna ; until 1742 the collections were conserved in the Palazzo Pubblico, then in the Palazzo Poggi, but were distributed among various libraries and institutions in the course of the nineteenth century.

Elizabeth Freeman, in early life known as Bett and later Mum Bett ( c. 1742 – December 28, 1829 ), was among the first black slaves in Massachusetts to file a " freedom suit " and win in court under the 1780 constitution, with a ruling that slavery was illegal.

A lifelong Tory, he was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire from 1716 until his death, but for a brief interlude from 1741 – 1742, and was prominent among the opponents of Sir Robert Walpole.

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

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

* 1742 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist ( d. 1799 )

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

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.

* February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile ( b. 1742 )

* February 19 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist ( d. 1742 )

The family provided two Holy Roman Emperors: Louis IV ( 1314 – 1347 ) and Charles VII ( 1742 – 1745 ), both members of the Bavarian branch of the family, and one German King with Rupert of the Palatinate ( 1400 – 1410 ), a member of the Palatinate branch.

On 7 June 1742, the German mathematician Christian Goldbach ( originally of Brandenburg-Prussia ) wrote a letter to Leonhard Euler ( letter XLIII ) in which he proposed the following conjecture:

The city became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 during the Silesian Wars and part of the German Empire in 1871.

This situation came to an end when Prussia forcibly took the land in 1742, before itself becoming the German Empire between 1871 and 1918.

It is named after German surgeon August Gottlieb Richter ( 1742 – 1812 ).

In 1742 the bulk of Upper Silesia was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia, and in 1871 became part of the German Empire.

Friedrich Hoffmann ( February 19, 1660 – November 12, 1742 ) was a German physician and chemist.

* February 24-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German satirist ( born 1742 )

* February 19-Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist ( died 1742 )

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ( 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799 ) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile.

In 1742 it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1871 became part of the newly formed German Empire.

* Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ( 1742 – 1799 ), German scientist, satirist and anglophile

In 1742 it become part of Prussia and in 1871 the German Empire.

Johann Peter Melchior ( October 12, 1742 – June 13, 1825 ) was a German porcelain modeller.

* Friedrich Hoffmann ( 1660 – 1742 ), German physicist and chemist at Halle

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart ( 1742, Holderbank, Aargau – 1795 ) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780 – 1793.

Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper ( 2 June 1742 – 27 July 1810 ) was a German entomologist.