* 1842, 1 February, Paris, Salle Vivienne – Jean-Delphin Alard ( soloist ); Berlioz ( conductor )

* 1842, 26 September, Brussels – Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ( soloist ); Berlioz ( conductor )

In 1842, Cole embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe in an effort to study in the style of the Old Masters and to paint its scenery.

He had already embarked upon politics, and severely criticized the government in a pamphlet, Pie Desideria eines österreichischen Schriftstellers ( 1842 ); and in 1845 he made a journey to England, after which his political opinions became more pronounced.

Between July 1840 and June 1842 Fallmerayer embarked on his second major journey, setting out from Regensburg and travelling along the Danube and across the Black Sea to Trapezunt.

They later met again at a party and married on November 4, 1842, in the Springfield mansion of Mary's married sister.

With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

Anne would have seen Weightman on her holidays at home, particularly during summer 1842 when her sisters were away.

She came home on the death of her aunt in early November 1842, while her sisters were in Brussels.

The Malay was lost 27 July 1842 on the Europa Rocks.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

Ada Lovelace's note G on the analytical engine from 1842 describes an algorithm for generating Bernoulli numbers with Babbage's machine.

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed that Dodos were ground pigeons, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had discovered in the royal Danish collection at Copenhagen.

It was given explicit statement by Robert Leslie Ellis in " On the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities " read on 14 February 1842, ( and much later again in " Remarks on the Fundamental Principles of the Theory of Probabilities ").

His chief activity, however, centred on the elaboration of his Comparative Grammar, which appeared in six parts at considerable intervals ( Berlin, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1847, 1849, 1852 ), under the title Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ( Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend ( Avestan ), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German ).

Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.

Sullivan was born in London on 13 May 1842.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

This conflagration started on the night of the 4 May 1842 and was extinguished on 8 May.

He then signed articles on yet another whaler for a six-month cruise ( November 1842 − April 1843 ) and left that ship in Honolulu.

Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U. S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 – 1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.

Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.

With the cession of Hong Kong under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, the firm set up its headquarters on the island and grew rapidly.

In the 1842 Battle of Jellalabad, Akbar Khan besieged the British troops on their way to Jalalabad.

He moved to the city of Cologne in 1842, where he began writing for the radical newspaper Rheinische Zeitung, where he expressed his increasingly socialist views on politics.

After she obtained her diploma and made a modest debut in Bologna, in 1842, as " Climene " in Pacini ’ s Saffo, she obtained a triennial engagement thanks to Rossini's influence on the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli, Intendant at both Milan ’ s Teatro alla Scala and Vienna ’ s Imperial Kärntnertortheater.

* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.

Organized in 1842, the orchestra is older than any other extant American symphonic institution by nearly four decades ; its record-setting 14, 000th concert was given in December 2004.

" The first concert of the New York Philharmonic took place on December 7, 1842 in the Apollo Rooms on lower Broadway before an audience of 600.

In 1842 a concert of his tone poems at the Redoutensaal at the Hofburg Imperial Palace received extremely positive reviews, and over the course of the next three years Berwald wrote four symphonies.

Over the following year he was nursed back to health in the presence his wife, a concert pianist, Josephine Plantin whom he married in 1842.

After the advent of Giacomo Meyerbeer as Kapellmeister, from 1842, the role of the orchestra expanded and a first annual concert series for subscribers was launched.

Janet Monach Patey ( 1 May 1842 – 28 February 1894 ) was an English concert and oratorio contralto.

Taylor published a number of books as an Anti-Corn Law propagandist, most notably, The Natural History of Society ( 1841 ), Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire ( 1842 ), and Factories and the Factory System ( 1844 ).

* Taylor, W. C. ( 1842 ) Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire: in a series of letters, London: Duncan & Malcolm.

Charles Dickens visited Perkins in 1842 during a lecture tour of America and was amazed at the work Howe was doing with Laura Bridgman, a deafblind girl who had come to the school in 1837 from New Hampshire.

In June 1842 he welcomed at Templeogue, four miles southwest of Dublin, the author of the Snob Papers on his Irish tour ( the Sketch Book was, later, dedicated to Lever ).

He made a final tour in Switzerland in 1833, and died in 1842.

In the second half of November until December 12, 1842, he made a further tour in Great Britain, and in January 1843 he returned to Paris.

He left on a tour of Europe and in 1842 published his first book, " Rambles in Malta and Sicily ".

Three years later, in 1842, the regiment escorted Queen Victoria during her tour of Perthshire.

Following a tour at the Washington Navy Yard and coast survey duty at New York, he attended the Naval School at Philadelphia, stood his examination on 2 June 1842, and was warranted a passed midshipman on 2 July.

Between 1842 and 1855, Stevens served at various posts ashore, among which were two tours on coast survey duty, one tour as acting master of during her construction and 30 months as storekeeper in Honolulu, Hawaii.

He was an assistant to George Porter and between 1841 and 1842 undertook a long study tour of continental Europe with Ewan Christian who remained a lifelong friend and became his executor.

* Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray travelled through the village during his Irish tour in 1842.