After being checked by the Sikh forces, the Chinese and the Sikhs signed a treaty in September 1842, which stipulated no transgressions or interference in the other country's frontiers.

Meanwhile in the Himalayas, the Sikh Empire attempted an occupation of Tibet but were defeated in the Sino-Sikh war ( 1841 – 1842 ).

In 1841 the Sikh Empire attempted to establish their authority on Ü-Tsang but where defeated in the Sino-Sikh war ( 1841 – 1842 ).

Then in 1842, Shah Sakandar's brother, Karim Khan, expelled Gaur Rahman with the support of a Sikh army from Kashmir.

Sam Davis ( 1842 – 1863 ) is called the Boy Hero of the Confederacy.

A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).

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.

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.

Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( 1842 ) by Richard Wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel.

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 ).

Also writing in the German language, Jeremias Gotthelf wrote The Black Spider ( 1842 ), an allegorical work which used gothic themes.

In 1842, a General Strike involving cotton workers and colliers was organised through the Chartist movement which stopped production across Great Britain.

In 1846, Congress approved the Walker Tariff ( named after Robert J. Walker, the Secretary of the Treasury ), which represented a substantial reduction of the high Whig-backed Tariff of 1842.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song " begins with verses which are the emblem of recent history: ' Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live '.

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

Smith's apparent 1838 identification as " Nephi " was left unchanged when the 1838 history was published in 1842 in Times and Seasons, which Smith edited himself, and in Millennial Star.

The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities ( historical ), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs ( lullabies ).

The magazine initially struggled for readers, except for an 1842 " Almanack " issue which shocked its creators by selling 90, 000 copies.

López did not free these slaves ; instead, he enacted the 1842 Law of the Free Womb, which ended the slave trade and guaranteed that the children of slaves would be free at age twenty-five.

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.

The war ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, which allowed the British to dictate opening the treaty ports, Shanghai included, for international trade.

Darwin now had the framework of his theory of natural selection " by which to work ", but he was fully occupied with his career as a geologist and held off writing a sketch of his theory until his book on The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs was completed in May 1842.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

Pacini's successes during this time period include La fidanzata corsa ( Naples, 1842 ), Maria, regina d ' Inghilterra ( Palermo, 1843 ), Medea ( Palermo, 1843 with several later revisions, the last of which was in Naples in 1853 ), Lorenzino de ' Medici ( Venice, 1845 ), Bondelmonte ( Florence, 1845 ), Stella di Napoli ( Naples, 1845 ) and La regina di Cipro ( Turin, 1846 ).

In 1842, the 22-year-old Engels was sent by his parents to Manchester, England, to work for the Ermen and Engels ' Victoria Mill in Weaste which made sewing threads.

The pantomime under " review " was a fabrication ( though it inspired a hack to turn it into an actual pantomime, The Ol ’ Clo's Man, in which Deburau probably appeared < ref > Gautier's " review " appeared in the Revue de Paris on September 4, 1842, but the manuscript of The Ol ’ Clo's Man that was submitted for approval to the censor's office before production of the pantomime bears the date October 17, 1842.

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

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.

In 1842 he became an assistant to Robert Bunsen at the University of Marburg ; he took his doctoral degree there in 1843.

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

In 1842 Palmer bought large amounts of space in various newspapers at a discounted rate then resold the space at higher rates to advertisers.

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.

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 )

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.

American missionaries from New England established a mission at Baraka ( now Libreville ) 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.

Although they had briefly met each other at the offices of the Rheinische Zeitung in 1842, it was here in Paris that they began their friendship that would last for the rest of their lives.

He earned his bachelor of arts degree ( 1840 ) and bachelor of science degree ( 1842 ) at the École Normale Supérieure.

* 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

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.

The break was between middle C and C-sharp, or outside of Iberia between B and C. Broken keyboards reappeared in 1842 with the harmonium, the split occurring at e4 / f4.

In 1842, French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river.

The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, perhaps as a copy of similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military.

Captain Casement had served in the 1842 Afghan campaign and went to fight as a volunteer in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 but arrived after the Surrender at Világos.

In the winter of 1842, Ford sold Northup to Tibeats at a price that left the carpenter owing money on him.