* 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman ( d. 1742 )

* 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general ( d. 1786 )

* 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

* 1720 – 1742 Edmond Halley

* 1742 – 1762 James Bradley

* Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg: 1667 – 1742

* 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1742 )

* Pope Pius VII ( 1742 – 1823, r. 1800 – 23 )

* 1742 – Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal ( d. 1819 )

* 1709 – Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, queen consort of Spain ( d. 1742 )

* 1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist ( d. 1742 )

* 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* Dositej Obradović ( Serbian, 1742 – 1811 )

Henry Dundas ( 1742 – 1811 ) dominated political affairs in the latter part of the century.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

In 1742, the Charles Jervas translation appeared, posthumously.

* date unknown – Charles Rivington, English publisher ( d. 1742 )

In 1742, the Palatinate was inherited by Duke Charles Theodore of Sulzbach.

The family provided two Holy Roman Emperors: Louis IV ( 1314 – 1347 ) and Charles VII ( 1742 – 1745 ), both members of the Bavarian branch of the family, and one German King with Rupert of the Palatinate ( 1400 – 1410 ), a member of the Palatinate branch.

Clemens August, who mostly sided with the Austrian Habsburg-Lorraine side during the War of the Austrian Succession, personally crowned his brother Charles VII emperor at Frankfurt in 1742.

The Elector of Bavaria, who now styled himself Archduke of Austria, was crowned King of Bohemia ( 9 December 1741 ) and elected to the imperial throne as Charles VII ( 24 January 1742 ), but no active measures were undertaken.

The town of Charles Town was established in 1742 by Act of the Maryland Assembly because, to quote the Act, “ the encouragement of Trade and Navigation is the surest means of promoting the happiness and increasing the riches of every country.

Warehouse Site ( CE-390 ); Customs House Site ( CE-391 ); Charlestown Wharf Site ( CE-392 ); and Charlestown Wharf ( CE-1297 ): In 1742, when the colonial Maryland Assembly enacted a law to build Charles Town at Long Point on the Northeast River, it also enacted a law to build a wharf for shipping and commerce.

With his success at Goodman's Fields, Charles Fleetwood, manager of Drury Lane, engaged Garrick to play Chaumont on Otway's The Orphan ( a role he first played in Ipswich ) on 11 May 1742 while he used his letters patent to close down Giffard's theatre.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

* Colonel Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, 1742 – 1744

Charles Rivington ( 1688 – February 22, 1742 ), British publisher, eldest son of Thurston Rivington, was born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in 1688.

* Charles Burney-An Essay Towards a History of the Principal Comets that have Appeared Since 1742

** Charles Rivington, English publisher ( died 1742 )

In 1742 Mathews sent a small squadron to Naples to compel King Charles, later the King of Spain, to remain neutral.

Born 1817, at St-Omer, France, to Lt .- Colonel Charles Stisted ( 1786 – 1842 ) of the 3rd Hussars, by his wife Eliza ( 1791 – 1822 ), daughter of Major-General Andrew Burn ( 1742 – 1814 ) of Gillingham, Kent.

Charles curbed the Czech nobility, rationalized the provincial administration of Bohemia and Moravia, and made Brandenburg ( until 1415 ), Lusatia ( until 1635 ), and Silesia ( until 1742 ) into fiefs of the Czech crown.

* Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun ( 1681 – 1742 )

In June 1763 Charles married, to Margaret Tilghman ( 1742 – 1817 ), daughter of Matthew Tilghman of Talbot County.

Charles ' brother, Klemens August of Bavaria, archbishop and prince-elector of the Electorate of Cologne, voted for him in the Imperial election and personally crowned him on 12 February 1742 in the traditional ceremony in Frankfurt am Main.

* Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald: 1737 – 1742

The Battle of Chotusitz, or Chotusice, sometimes called the Battle of Czaslau, was fought on May 17, 1742 in Bohemia between the Austrians under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and the Prussians under Frederick the Great.

Charles Theodore, Prince-Elector, Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria (; December 11, 1724 – February 16, 1799 ) reigned as Prince-Elector and Count palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as Prince-Elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777, until his death.

Pope Pius VII ( 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823 ), born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, was a monk, theologian and bishop, who reigned as Pope from 14 March 1800 to 20 August 1823.

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They also played a part in historical events-the Paris Coronation Coach for example was used for the coronation of Emperor Charles VII in 1742.

Elected Emperor Charles VII on January 24, 1742, Charles Albert was then crowned on 12 February.

This junior line, raised to an imperial principality by Emperor Charles VII of Wittelsbach in 1742, was reacquired by Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1804.

In the same year Karl-Albrecht acquired the Crown of Bohemia and, on January 24, 1742 he was elected Emperor as Charles VII, but his rule was short and when he died three years later he was succeeded as Emperor by Francis of Lorraine while the latter's wife, Maria Theresa of Austria, inherited the Bohemian and Hungarians Crowns.