He graduated in 1842, 24th in a class of 56 cadets, and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U. S. Artillery.

Alexandria was named after its founder, Alexandru II Ghica, prince of Romania from 1834 to 1842.

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

Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

He is also associated with the first recorded instance of a cycling traffic offence, when a Glasgow newspaper in 1842 reported an accident in which an anonymous " gentleman from Dumfries-shire ... bestride a velocipede ... of ingenious design " knocked over a little girl in Glasgow and was fined five shillings.

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.

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.

The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War ( 1840 ) led to the Treaty of Nanjing ( 1842 ), under which Hong Kong was ceded and opium import was legitimized.

Their time at the school was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt who joined the family to look after the children after the death of their mother, died of internal obstruction in October 1842.

Although nominally a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the rich should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by the middle class.

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

" " Ludwig " was soon identified as Rufus Wilmot Griswold, an editor, critic and anthologist who had borne a grudge against Poe since 1842.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

Samuel Lee, the editor ( 1842 ) and translator ( 1843 ) of the Syriac Theophania thought that the work must have been written " after the general peace restored to the Church by Constantine, and before either the ' Praeparatio ,' or the ' Demonstratio Evengelica ,' was written.

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 ").

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.

* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

Sullivan was born in London on 13 May 1842.

Punch was an unexpected success, yet, a year later, Mayhew resigned as joint editor in 1842.

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

In 1842, about a quarter of the inner city was destroyed in the " Great Fire ".

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

In practice, the transfer did not take effect until 24 February 1836 when Major-General George Middlemore ( 1836 – 1842 ), the first governor appointed by the British government, arrived with 91st Regiment troops.

* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.

He and his wife Mary-Anne went with Robinson when he was appointed Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip, returning to Flinders Island in 1842.

Dibble was appointed postmaster in July 1839 and continued until 1842.

The postoffice was established July 25, 1842, named Warrensville, and Samuel Torbert was appointed postmaster.

It was first formulated in 1842 by a committee appointed by the British Association to consider the rules of zoological nomenclature ; the committee's report was written by Hugh Edwin Strickland.

The British House of Commons on 3 March passed a resolution by 263 to 249 against the Government saying: That this House has heard with concern of the conflicts which have occurred between the British and Chinese authorities on the Canton River ; and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the papers which have been laid on the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow, and that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of our commercial relations with China.

His activity as professor ceased in March 1842, when he was appointed "" ( High Chancellor ), the title given by Frederick the Great in 1746 to the official at the head of the juridical system in Prussia, as in this position he carried out several important law reforms in regard to bills of exchange and divorce.

In 1837 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1842 ordinary, professor of classical languages and literature at the University of Göttingen, where he died.

But the official book recording appointments to the various Stewardships ( lodged in the National Archives under catalogue reference E 197 / 1 ) indicates that Patrick Chalmers, MP for Montrose Burghs, was appointed to Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 6 April 1842.

* Thomas Hamilton ( university administrator ) ( 1842 – 1926 ), Northern Ireland academic and clergyman ; appointed president of Queens College, Belfast in 1889

After several years in Leipzig and Jena, King Frederick William IV of Prussia appointed him in October 1842 to a professorship at the University of Bonn.

He was appointed professor ordinarius of classical literature at the and in 1842 he was transferred to Göttingen to the chair of philology and archaeology, vacant by the death of Otfried Müller.

In 1842, Gull was appointed to teach Materia Medica at Guy's Hospital, and the Treasurer gave him a small house in King Street, with an annual salary of £ 100.

Next, Cass was appointed minister to France, a post he retained until 1842.

FitzRoy was elected the Tory Member of Parliament for Durham in 1841, and appointed Acting Conservator of the River Mersey in 1842.

James Bruce became Governor of Jamaica in 1842, and in 1847 was appointed Governor General of Canada.

After serving in Ireland with the 12th Royal Lancers ( the Prince of Wales's ), he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 8th Light Dragoons on 15 April 1842 and colonel of the 17th Lancers on 25 April 1842.

However on 15 October 1842, Marx was appointed to the editorial board and the Rheinische Zeitung began an apparent rise from the ashes gaining nearly 1, 000 subscribers over the course of the next month.

Van Zandt was the representative of Harrison County in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas from 1840 until 1842, when Sam Houston appointed him Republic of Texas Chargé d ' Affaires in Washington, DC.

In 1842, at the age of 60, Napier was appointed Major General to the command of the Indian army within the Bombay Presidency.

In 1842, He was appointed inspector general of public accounts.

Karl Gützlaff was appointed civil magistrate in Chusan ( Zhoushan ) following the British occupation of the island, and Parkes served as his clerk from September 1842 to August 1843.