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.

He became more interested in music theory and completed a treatise on the subject, Neues musicalisches System ( 1742 / 3, published 1752 ).

In 1742 most of Silesia, including Liegnitz, became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after King Frederick the Great's defeat of Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession.

Lower Silesia and most of Upper Silesia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 during the First Silesian War.

After the rebellion and liberation in 1660, Molde became the administrative headquarter of Romsdalen Amt and was incorporated through a royal charter in 1742.

After Ann Lee and James Whittaker died, Joseph Meacham ( 1742 – 1796 ) became the leader of the Shakers in 1787.

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.

1742 saw the founding of the Frederick Academy, which became a university in 1743, but was moved that same year to Erlangen after serious riots because of the adverse reaction of the population.

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

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.

In December 1742, he became a major-general, and, the following year, he first saw active service in Germany.

In 1742 a union of parties resulted in the formation of an administration in which Pelham became Prime Minister the following year, with the offices of First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons.

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

In 1742, he established a brewery that in 1799 became Whitbread & Co Ltd.

Also, in 1731 he became the clerk of Scituate, which position he held for 11 years, until moving to Providence in 1742.

Daughters Maria Cäcilia ( born 1674 ) and Anna Magdalena ( 1677 – 1742 ) became nuns at Santa Clara, Merano, and the Nonnberg Abbey, respectively.

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 ).

He became involved in politics in 1742, beginning with his election as a Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge, and appointment as Solicitor General.

In 1742, however, the government of Sir Robert Walpole fell, and Murray's brother-in-law, the Earl of Nottingham, became First Lord of the Admiralty in the new Cabinet.

* Mary Nesbitt ( 1742 / 3-1825 ), an eighteenth century courtesan who became involved in political intrigue lived at Norwood House off Central Hill.

It grew as a market town and a garrison and became a port in 1742 when it was linked to Lough Neagh by the first summit-level canal in Britain or Ireland.

* James Graham, 4th Marquess of Montrose ( 1682 – 1742 ) became Duke of Montrose in 1707

For example, the Andalusian, Pedro Romero de Terreros, who became Count of Regla in 1768, made his money in silver mining at Real del Monte, near Pachuca, from 1742.

After the First Silesian War of 1742, Żagań became part of the Prussia.

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:

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.

An anonymous publication of 1742 entitled The Art of Architecture: A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry has been generally attributed to Gwynn.

According to Oak, the text of the alleged " inscription " is taken from an anthology of poetry entitled Sayar-ul-Okul, compiled in 1742 on the orders of a " Sultan Salim " ( the actual Sultan at the time being Mahmud I ), and first edited in 1864 in Berlin.

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.

** Most of Silesia was conquered by Prussia in 1740 – 1742 and the remnants which stayed under Habsburg sovereignty were ruled as Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia ( Austrian Silesia ).

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 )

From 1438 the Habsburgs, who controlled most of the southeast of the Empire ( more or less modern-day Austria and Slovenia, and Bohemia and Moravia after the death of King Louis II in 1526 ), maintained a constant grip on the position of the Holy Roman Emperor until 1806 ( with the exception of the years between 1742 and 1745 ).

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

* John Young ( Hawaii ) ( c. 1742 – 1835 ), British-born government advisor of Kamehameha I

* Anders Jahan Retzius ( 1742 – 1821 ), naturalist.

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

After consultation with both canon lawyers and theologians in France and Germany, Dominique Marie Varlet ( 1678 – 1742 ), a Roman Catholic Bishop of the French Oratorian Society of Foreign Missions, ordained Bishop Steenoven.

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.

* Treaty of Berlin ( 1742 ), between Austria and Prussia

The family also provided two Holy Roman Emperors ( 1328 / 1742 ), one King of the Romans ( 1400 ), two Anti-Kings of Bohemia ( 1619 / 1742 ), one King of Hungary ( 1305 ), one King of Denmark and Norway ( 1440 ) and a King of Greece ( 1832 – 1862 ).

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.