However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

Nikolai Gogol's " Nevsky Prospekt " ( 1835 ), " The Nose " ( 1836 ) and " The Overcoat " ( 1842 ) are dark humorous tales about human misery.

In 1842 it was estimated that about 400 Arab and 120 Jewish families lived in Hebron, the latter having been diminished in number following the destruction of 1834.

The ruins of Harrappa were first described in 1842 by Charles Masson in his Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, where locals talked of an ancient city extending " thirteen cosses " ( about 25 miles ), but no archaeological interest would attach to this for nearly a century.

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

The first use of the ambulance as a specialized vehicle, in battle came about with the ambulances volantes designed by Dominique Jean Larrey ( 1766 – 1842 ), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician.

Father José Maria Zalvidea left San Juan Capistrano on or about November 25, 1842, when Mission San Luis Rey de Francia's Father Ibarra died, leaving the Mission without a resident priest for the first time ( Zalvidea had been the Mission's sole priest ever since the death of Father Josef Barona in 1831.

Hunt's most famous case came about in 1842 when George Pearson, the chief witness in the case respecting the attempt on the life of Queen Victoria made by John Francis, was brought into court he was incapable of giving his evidence.

Rivalry between academic opinion at LSE and Cambridge goes back to the School's roots when LSE's Edwin Cannan ( 1861 – 1935 ), Professor of Economics, and Cambridge's Professor of Political Economy, Alfred Marshall ( 1842 – 1924 ), the leading economist of the day, argued about the bedrock matter of economics and whether the subject should be considered as an organic whole.

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).

Now she had a sympathetic reader in Schücking, she began to write in earnest, producing about fifty poems between October 1841 and April 1842.

" However, Haebich records Rolepana as having died in Melbourne in 1842 ( he would have been about 15 years ).

It was renamed Boothbay in 1842 after the hamlet of Boothby, which is located about a mile east of Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire, England.

A third vote brought about the conviction of 13 of the 18 men charged in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842.

The population remained depleted until about 1842 because of the continuing threat of Mexican raids into the area.

The 1842 Leeds Directory description of Keighley reads " Its parish had no dependent townships though it is about six miles ( 10 km ) long and four broad, and comprises of land ( including a peaty moor of about ) and a population which amounted, in the year 1801, to 5, 745.

Harrison Ainsworth, in his 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, wrote about the local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber.

As a young man he composed the ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular ballads about heroic episodes in Roman history which he composed in India and published in 1842.

A prominent radical abolitionist, Episcopalian, and Most Worshipful Grand Master of Freemasonry from Lowell and Boston, Massachusetts, Lewis became a Latter Day Saint about 1842.

There is some mystery about his early life, but he is known to have become a Methodist in 1842 having been baptised and given the name of Hohepa Otene ( named after the missionary ).

As a result of the Second Seminole War ( 1835 – 1842 ) about 3, 800 Seminole and maroons were forcibly removed to Indian Territory ( the modern state of Oklahoma ).

The only railroad, the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad, ran through the town, but only operated from about 1839 to 1842.

It was only generally applied to the British military musket ( the Brown Bess ) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder and after an elaborate government test at Woolwich in 1834.

This was only generally applied to the British military musket ( the Brown Bess ) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder and after an elaborate government test at Woolwich in 1834.

In 1842, the family joined him in the city.

The city exported meat, wool, wine, fruit and wheat by the time Grey left in 1845, contrasting with a low point in 1842 when one-third of Adelaide houses were abandoned.

From 1842, the boundaries of the city were comprehended by the baronies of Dublin City and the Barony of Dublin.

In 1842, the city charter was amended for the first time.

The 1842 Cap-Haitien earthquake destroyed the city, and the Sans Souci Palace, killing 10, 000 people.

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.

It took its name from the city of Pilsen ( Plzeň in Czech ), Bohemia, now Czech Republic, where it was first produced in 1842.

The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement.

During the First Opium War ( 1839 – 1842 ), British forces occupied the city.

Great fires ravaged the city in 1598, 1651, 1681, 1708, twice in 1717, 1742, 1788, 1841 and 1842 ; these were only the worst cases.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

Georgetown gained official city status on 24 August 1842 during the reign of Queen Victoria.

During the Second Seminole War ( 1836 – 1842 ) a large sugar plantation in what is today the city of Daytona Beach was burned by the Seminole.

The city was incorporated in 1842 and according to 2010 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 22, 791, ranking it as the state's 22nd largest city, behind Searcy.

The city of Independence was incorporated in 1842 to be the county seat of Kenton County, having been determined to be the geographical center of the newly formed county, and was named to mark the independence of Kenton County from Campbell County.

The city was formerly, from 1842 until its closing in 1928, the site of Synodical College, one of the earliest women's colleges in the United States.

Hermann is a city designated in 1842 as the county seat of Gasconade County, Missouri, United States.

Richardson ’ s home, built in 1842 on a knoll overlooking Little Troublesome Creek, still remains on Richardson Drive and has the distinction of being the oldest standing house in the city.

Lima was officially organized as a city in 1842.

McKeesport was incorporated as a borough in 1842 and as a city in 1891.

According to the Sharpsburg town web site, http :// www. city-data. com / city / Sharpsburg-Pennsylvania. html, incorporation was March 26, 1842.