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.

Schwetzingen Castle began as a simple aristocratic fishing retreat ( much like Versailles which began as a hunting lodge ) and had an eventful architectural history, in several phases of construction, especially during the reigns of the Elector of the Palatinate Karl Philip ( 1716 – 1742 ) and Karl IV Theodor ( 1742 – 1799 ) who, as their answer to Versailles, embellished the castle gardens with some of the finest and most elaborate formal water parterres in Germany gardens.

He then succeeded his father as Count Palatine of Sulzbach in 1733 and inherited the Electoral Palatinate and the duchies of Jülich and Berg in 1742, with the death of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine.

Upon his death in December 1742, the Palatinate-Neuburg line became extinct, and the Electorate of the Palatinate ( including Neuburg, Jülich and Berg ) was inherited by Charles Theodore of the Palatinate-Sulzbach line of the Wittelsbach family.

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.

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.

After the death of his father in 1704, Christian August inherited Anhalt-Dornburg jointly with his brothers John Louis II, John Augustus ( died 1709 ), Christian Louis ( died 1710 ) and John Frederick ( died 1742 ).

** Hongxi ( 弘晳 ; 25 August 1694-26 October 1742 ), born to Lady Lingiya, inherited Yunreng's title " Prince Li of the First Rank " ( 理親王 ).

He inherited the estate through his mother's line on the death of his grandfather in 1742, at which time he was aged 10.

Jülich and Berg fell to Count Palatine Wolfgang William of Neuburg and after the last duke of Palatinate-Neuburg ( also Palatine Elector from 1685 ) Charles III Philip had died without issue in 1742, Count Charles Theodore of Palatinate-Sulzbach ( after 1777 also Duke of Bavaria ) inherited Jülich and Berg.

In the same year Karl-Albrecht acquired the Crown of Bohemia and, on January 24, 1742 he was elected Emperor as Charles VII, but his rule was short and when he died three years later he was succeeded as Emperor by Francis of Lorraine while the latter's wife, Maria Theresa of Austria, inherited the Bohemian and Hungarians Crowns.

It is listed by Nathan Bailey ( 1742 ) as meaning " the knowledge of the nature of man " ( OED ).

Zhongguo Guanhua ( 中國官話 ), or Medii Regni Communis Loquela (" Middle Kingdom's Common Speech "), used on the frontispiece of an early Chinese grammar published by Étienne Fourmont ( with Arcadio Huang ) in 1742

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.

The first beer pump known in England is believed to have been invented by John Lofting ( b. Netherlands 1659-d. Great Marlow Buckinghamshire 1742 ) an inventor, manufacturer and merchant of London.

( Translated to Danish by Hans Hagerup in 1742 as Niels Klims underjordiske Rejse.

* 1742: Messiah, oratorio by Handel premiered in Dublin

Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Tahiti, by John Francis Rigaud ( 1742 – 1810 ), 1780.

About the same time, in October 1742, he was chosen by the Swedish parliament to become heir presumptive to the Swedish throne.

Imperii Orientalis et Circumjacentium Regionum by Guillaume Delisle ( 1742 )

In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

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

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.

After 1742 the war was subsumed by the wider War of the Austrian Succession involving most of the powers of Europe.

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.

Other important Norwegian by birth ' Danish ' authors of the period included Ludvig Holberg ( Bergen, 1684 — 1754 ), Christian Tullin ( Christiania, 1728 — 1765 ), and Johan Herman Wessel ( 1742 — 1785 ).

The detector was based on an electrostatic device called the ' electric chimes ' invented by Andrew Gordon in 1742.

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

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

The city was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia by the 1742 Treaty of Breslau which ended the First Silesian War.