Frederick William IV introduced the Pickelhaube for use by the majority of Prussian infantry on October 23, 1842 by a royal cabinet order.

During 1842 the majority against repeal was 303, by 1845 this had decreased to 132.

This dynasty lasted until 1842, when the US forced the majority of Seminole to move from Florida to the Indian Territory ( modern Oklahoma ) after the Second Seminole War.

The majority of Māori were keen to sign to consolidate peace and end the long inter-tribal Musket Wars 1807 – 1842.

Joseph Smith ostensibly translated the majority of the Book of Abraham text in July and a few days in November 1835 and did some minor revisions in March 1842.

He defeated Edward Everett in 1839 by one vote, and the Senate chose him over John Davis in 1842, as neither man obtained a majority.

The 13 Democrats in the state senate, who became known as the " Immortal Thirteen ," refused to allow a joint session of the legislature ( where Whigs, who controlled the House, would have a numerical majority ) to choose the replacement senators, and Tennessee thus had no representation in the U. S. Senate for most of 1842 and 1843.

The majority of Hungarian scholars take the codex to be a hoax of Sámuel Literáti Nemes ( 1796 – 1842 ), Transylvanian-Hungarian antiquarian, co-founder of the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, infamous for many historical forgeries ( mostly made in the 1830s ) which even deceived some of the most renowned Hungarian scholars of the time.

* The " Frontier Route "— surveyed in 1836 by Captain Yule ( Royal Engineers ) from Saint John, via Fredericton, up the Saint John River valley to Canada East, not far from the International Boundary which had been recently decided in favour of the United States during the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

Manzoni was firmly in favour of the dialect of Florence and, after washing his vocabulary on the banks of the Arno ( as he put it ), he revised the novel's language for its republication in 1842.

Captain Smith ( according to his Dispatch of 25 May 1842 ), who had hitherto been at pains to avoid hostilities and in favour of conciliation, on receiving an " insolent " letter demanding that the force he commanded should immediately quit Natal, followed up the removal by armed men of a quantity of cattle belonging to the troops deemed it absolutely necessary that some steps should be taken in order to prevent a repetition of such outrages.

By the end of 1842 both of the colonies newspapers had taken up the cause in favour of the builders and a memorial was presented to the Secretary of the Colonies in Britain, demanding that the arbitration decision be honoured or put before a jury trial.

His most memorable works, which met with popular favour were: The Solitary ( 1831 ), a poem, The Autobiography of Jack Ketch ( 1834 ), a novel, The Cavalier ( 1836 ), a play in blank verse, Richard Savage ( 1842, and perhaps his finest novel ), and The Earl of Essex, a historical romance ( 1843 ).

In 1842, Manor constructed a two story frame home retaining the cabin at the rear of the house as the kitchen.

Peel's support for free trade could already be seen in his 1842 and 1845 budgets ; in late 1842 Graham wrote to Peel that " the next change in the Corn Laws must be to an open trade " while arguing that the government should not tackle the issue.

Speaking to the cabinet in 1844, Peel argued that the choice was maintenance of the 1842 Corn Law or total repeal.

Peel's acolyte Monckton Milne MP said of Villiers at the time of this concession during 1842 that he was " the solitary Robinson Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal ".

He entered the struggle for free trade, and obtained in 1842 the prize offered by the Anti-Corn Law League for the best essay on Agriculture and the Corn Laws.

In 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845 he launched parliamentary debates in attempts to repeal the Corn Laws.

In February 1842 Villiers was called by Monckton Milne MP the " solitary Robinson Crusoe standing on the barren rock of Corn Law repeal ".

He served as Lord Privy Seal from 1842 to 1846 and as Lord President of the Council from January to July 1846 in Peel's government, when he reluctantly supported Peel's decision to repeal the Corn Laws.

* Laws of Property: Essays on Property and Labor ( 18mo, New York, 1842 )

The Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire of 1842 introduced two sets of such officials: one for gubernyal level of administration and the other for powiat-level.

In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms.

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

In an 1842 English case, Winterbottom v. Wright, the postal service had contracted with Wright to maintain its coaches.

From Paris, he had paid short visits to the Netherlands ( 1841 ) and England ( 1842 ).

By the time the government killed the project in 1842, they had given Babbage over ₤ 17, 000, more than double the cost of a warship, without receiving a working engine.

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.

Poe failed to show up for a meeting with Thomas to discuss the appointment in mid-September 1842, claiming to have been sick, though Thomas believed he had been drunk.

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

Hamburg had several great fires, the most notable ones in 1284 and 1842.

By 1842, a list of nine elements believed to be essential to plant growth had been compiled, and the discoveries of the German botanists Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop, in the years 1859-65, resulted in a development of the technique of soilless cultivation.

Quite early in his career, in 1842, he had begun to receive a grant to enable him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations ; and the Storting ( Norwegian parliament ), conscious of the national importance of his work, treated him in this respect with more and more generosity as he advanced in years.

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.

Fighting was not resolved until 1842, after Van Buren had left office.

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.

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.

In late 1842, Jardine's health had rapidly deteriorated possibly from pulmonary oedima.

" It is interesting to note that Jardine had helped James Stewart's son William by giving him a place in the firm in Canton as a clerk in the 1830s and eventually became a partner in 1842.

In 1842, Bhutan gave up control to the British of some of the troublesome Bengal Duars territory it had administered since 1784.

However, Engels never met Karl Marx until they had a brief encounter near the end of November 1842.

In 1842, Saint-Saëns began piano lessons with Camille-Marie Stamaty, a pupil of Friedrich Kalkbrenner, who had his students play the piano while resting their forearms on a bar situated in front of the keyboard, so that all the pianist's power came from the hands and fingers but not the arms.

In 1938, Max Reinhardt directed a Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder had adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ).

The first discovery of gold, at Rancho San Francisco in the mountains north of present-day Los Angeles, had been in 1842, six years before Marshall's discovery, while California was still part of Mexico.

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.

In 1842 police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzlement case.

Alger began attending the Chelsea Grammar School in 1842, but by December 1844 his father's financial troubles had increased considerably and, in search of a better salary, he moved his family to Marlborough, Massachusetts, an agricultural town 25 miles west of Boston.

Having come to power avenging the murder of a man who had decided to cease interference in Uruguay, Rosas invaded Uruguay upon the 1842 election of a government there antagonistic to his personal commercial interests ( mainly centered in the export of cow hides and beef jerky, valuable commodities in those days ).