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

In 1742, on the basis of a specimen received from La Condamine, Linnaeus named the tree Quinquina condaminiae and established a new genus, which he termed Cinchona quinquina condaminiae.

It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later.

Born at Logierait in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland, he received his education at Logierait Parish School, Perth Grammar School, and at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews ( MA 1742 ).

After capturing the fortress of Eger ( Cheb ) on 19 April 1742, he received a leave of absence, and went to Russia to push his claims for the Duchy of Courland, but returned to his command after getting nowhere.

In 1726, he received the Archbishopric of Auch, and he died at Paris in 1742.

Born in Essex, at Great Dunmow in 1742, Lionel Lukin became credited with the invention of the Lifeboat after some experimentation along the French lines in 1784 with his own conversion of a Norway ‘ yawl ’ which he tested out on the river Thames, and in 1785 having received the personal encouragement of the Prince Regent, Lukin took out a patent.

A portion of Purver's translation was published in parts about 1742 by Felix Farley of Bristol, but the publication received little support.

In 1742 he was transferred from Querétaro to Veracruz, which was threatened by the English, but upon his arrival he received orders to return to Tehuacán.

The Saint Benedict Medal which includes the Vade Retro Satana formula to ward off Satan has been in use at least since the 18th century and in 1742 it received the approval of Pope Benedict XIV.

On the death of Newton he became a candidate for the presidency, but was defeated by Sir Hans Sloane, whom, however, he succeeded in 1741 ; in 1742 he was made a member of the French Academy ; in 1746 he received honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.

He was born in Frankfurt am Main. He received his earliest training from his father, the painter Johann Georg Pforr ( 1745 – 98 ), and his uncle, the art professor and first inspector of the painting gallery in Kassel, Johann Heinrich Tischbein the younger ( 1742 – 1808 ).

In 1742, Salem Abbey received the privilege to inflict high justice.

He painted an enthusiastically received portrait of Crown Princess Louise of England, the wife of the future Frederick V, one of centenarian Christen Jacobsen Drakenberg in 1742, at the acclaimed age of 116, and another of Christian Lerche in 1743.

Charles François Dupuis ( 26 October 1742 – 29 September 1809 ) was a French savant, a professor ( from 1766 ) of rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux, Paris, who studied for the law in his spare time and was received as avocat in 1770.

Facing it, at a distance of about 365 yards, is the small island of Tabarka, where the Genoese family of the Lomellini, who had purchased the grant of the coral fishing from the Ottoman Turks, maintained a garrison from 1540 to 1742.

The Coat-of-arms is from 1742.

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

When his aunt, Anna's younger sister Elizabeth, became Empress of Russia she brought Peter from Germany to Russia and proclaimed him her heir presumptive in the autumn of 1742.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear was a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.

Vernon tried to alleviate this great failure attacking the Spanish in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and then, on March 5, 1742 and with the help of reinforcements from Europe, in Panama.

In 1742 a large British fleet under Nicholas Haddock was sent to try and intercept a Spanish army being transported from Barcelona to Italy, which he failed to do.

Later, Nikolaus Bernoulli made the same assertion concerning the polynomial x < sup > 4 </ sup > − 4x < sup > 3 </ sup > + 2x < sup > 2 </ sup > + 4x + 4, but he got a letter from Euler in 1742 in which he was told that his polynomial happened to be equal to

The most famous of Louis's mistresses were the sisters of Mailly-Nesle ( four of the five sisters were king's mistresses, notably Louise-Julie, Comtesse de Mailly from 1738 to 1742 and Marie Anne, Duchesse de Châteauroux in 1743-44 ); Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour ( called Madame de Pompadour, the official mistress from 1745 to 1764 ); and Marie Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry ( official mistress from 1768 until the king's death in 1774 ).

Pope Pius VII ( 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823 ), born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, was a monk, theologian and bishop, who reigned as Pope from 14 March 1800 to 20 August 1823.

In 1742 Worcester County was created from Somerset County.

King Frederick II of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Silesian Wars ; Prussian control was confirmed in the Peace of Breslau in 1742.

Louisa County was established in 1742 from Hanover County.

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.

* 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 the aftermath of the Jacobite rising in 1715, General Wade built a fort ( taking from 1729 until 1742 ) which was named after the Duke of Cumberland.

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.

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.

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 border between the two colonies was adjusted, and consequently South Hampton would be chartered in 1742 from former parts of Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts.

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.

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.

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.

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.