* 1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

* date unknown – Charles Rivington, English publisher ( d. 1742 )

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

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.

Clemens August, who mostly sided with the Austrian Habsburg-Lorraine side during the War of the Austrian Succession, personally crowned his brother Charles VII emperor at Frankfurt in 1742.

The Elector of Bavaria, who now styled himself Archduke of Austria, was crowned King of Bohemia ( 9 December 1741 ) and elected to the imperial throne as Charles VII ( 24 January 1742 ), but no active measures were undertaken.

The town of Charles Town was established in 1742 by Act of the Maryland Assembly because, to quote the Act, “ the encouragement of Trade and Navigation is the surest means of promoting the happiness and increasing the riches of every country.

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.

With his success at Goodman's Fields, Charles Fleetwood, manager of Drury Lane, engaged Garrick to play Chaumont on Otway's The Orphan ( a role he first played in Ipswich ) on 11 May 1742 while he used his letters patent to close down Giffard's theatre.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

* Colonel Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, 1742 – 1744

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

* Charles Burney-An Essay Towards a History of the Principal Comets that have Appeared Since 1742

** Charles Rivington, English publisher ( died 1742 )

In 1742 Mathews sent a small squadron to Naples to compel King Charles, later the King of Spain, to remain neutral.

Born 1817, at St-Omer, France, to Lt .- Colonel Charles Stisted ( 1786 – 1842 ) of the 3rd Hussars, by his wife Eliza ( 1791 – 1822 ), daughter of Major-General Andrew Burn ( 1742 – 1814 ) of Gillingham, Kent.

Charles curbed the Czech nobility, rationalized the provincial administration of Bohemia and Moravia, and made Brandenburg ( until 1415 ), Lusatia ( until 1635 ), and Silesia ( until 1742 ) into fiefs of the Czech crown.

* Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun ( 1681 – 1742 )

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

Charles ' brother, Klemens August of Bavaria, archbishop and prince-elector of the Electorate of Cologne, voted for him in the Imperial election and personally crowned him on 12 February 1742 in the traditional ceremony in Frankfurt am Main.

* Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald: 1737 – 1742

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.

Charles Theodore, Prince-Elector, Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria (; December 11, 1724 – February 16, 1799 ) reigned as Prince-Elector and Count palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as Prince-Elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777, until his death.

Among the lives of Sydenham are one ( anonymous ) by Samuel Johnson in John Swan's translation of his works ( London, 1742 ), another by CG Kuhn in his edition of his works ( Leipzig, 1827 ), and a third by Robert Gordon Latham in his translation of his works published in London by the Sydenham Society in 1848.

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

They include: Letters from a Lady of Quality ( translation of Edme Boursault's play ) ( 1721 ); La Belle Assemblée ( 1724 ) ( translation of Madame de Gomez ’ s novella ); The Lady ’ s Philosopher's Stone ( 1723 ) ( translation of Louis Adrien Duperron de Castera ’ s historical novel ); Love in its Variety ( 1727 ) ( translation of Matteo Bandello ’ s stories ); The Disguis'd Prince ( 1728 ) ( translation of Madame de Villedieu ’ s 1679 novel ); The Virtuous Villager ( 1742 ) ( translation of Charles de Fieux's work ); and ( with William Hatchett ) The Sopha ( 1743 ) ( translation of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's novel ).

It was partially translated into English in 1739 ( An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects ); an abridgment of the original ( Las Vidas de los pintores y estatuarios españoles ) was published in London in 1742, and afterwards appeared in a French translation in 1749.

Book Four appeared in 1742, and a complete revision of the whole poem in the following year.

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.

The Athenaid, an epic in thirty books, was published in 1787, and his diary, entitled Memoirs of a distinguished literary and political Character from 1742 to 1757, appeared in 1813.

In 1732 Quin appeared at Covent Garden, returning to Drury Lane from 1734 to 1741, and in 1742 was again at Covent Garden, where he remained until the close of his career.

His didactic epos of Svenska Friheten appeared in 1742.

A third edition appeared in 1742, in eight volumes, the seventh and eighth volumes having been added in 1835.

Shamela had appeared anonymously, but Fielding published Joseph Andrews under his own name, also in 1742.

* 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman ( d. 1742 )

* 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general ( d. 1786 )

* 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

* 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1742 )

He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which takes his name.

* Pope Pius VII ( 1742 – 1823, r. 1800 – 23 )

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

In 1742 he entered the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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

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 )

In 1742 he befriended Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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

* 1709 – Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, queen consort of Spain ( d. 1742 )

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

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

After his success with Messiah ( 1742 ) he never performed an Italian opera again.

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

Henry Dundas ( 1742 – 1811 ) dominated political affairs in the latter part of the century.

In 1742, the electors became entitled to the superlative Durchläuchtigste ( Most Serene Highness ), while other princes were promoted to Durchlaucht.

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

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

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.