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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1842. 1842 (MDCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    1842 (English: Infantry rifle, type 1842) was one of the first standardised service rifles used by the Swiss armed forces. It was introduced in 1842 as...
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    The US Model 1842 Musket was a .69 caliber musket manufactured and used in the United States during the 19th century. It is a continuation of the Model...
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    The 1842–43 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification...
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    The 1842–43 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 1, 1842, and November 8, 1843...
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  • The Tariff of 1842, or Black Tariff as it became known, was a protectionist tariff schedule adopted in the United States. It reversed the effects of the...
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  • 1842 Hynek, provisional designation 1972 AA, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter...
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    Events from the year 1842 in Canada. Monarch: Victoria Parliament: 1st Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (starting 12 January)...
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  • The year 1842 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward publishes On the Growth of Plants in Closely...
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    William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and...
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    Derbyshire but, during William's childhood, the family descended into poverty. In 1842, Samuel Booth, who could no longer afford his son's school fees, apprenticed...
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    Shoots) is a collection of poems by Henrik Wergeland, published in April 1842, as a contribution to the struggle for the Jews' right to reside in Norway...
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    David Robinson (November 22, 1754 – December 11, 1843) was a Vermont soldier active in the American Revolution, ultimately promoted to the rank of Major...
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    (1831–1890) Princess Juliane of Bentheim and Steinfurt (5 January 1842 – 29 April 1878)[citation needed] ∞ 1873 Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld...
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  • Fernández A province with the same name was first created on October 27, 1842, being originally composed of the Valparaíso, Casablanca and Quillota Departments...
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  • William Armistead (1762–1799) was a Revolutionary War drummer boy from Elizabeth City County, Virginia, who became a planter (and slaveowner) in North...
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    Somers was launched at the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, with Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command. After...
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    The 1842 retreat from Kabul was the retreat of the British and East India Company forces from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. An uprising in Kabul...
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  • events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1842. Paleontology portal Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes...
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  • The Treaty of Chushul, or the Dogra–Tibetan Treaty of 1842, was a peace treaty signed between the Tibetan government of Ganden Phodrang (then a protectorate...
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    region; also called King William's Act Newfoundland Act 1832 Newfoundland Act 1842 – established an appointed upper Legislative Council and elected lower House...
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  • 1842 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events William "Bendigo" Thompson contemplates a comeback but no one will challenge Ben Caunt...
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    The Treason Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 51) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was passed early in the reign...
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    Europa 1842" [Official units of measure in Europe 1842] (in German). Retrieved 26 March 2011. Text version of Malaisé's book. Ferdinand Malaisé (1842)....
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  • William Wordsworth, 1842, by Benjamin Haydon...
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    The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the...
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    The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 99), commonly known as the Mines Act 1842, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act...
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    The 1842 general strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots, started among the miners in Staffordshire, England, and soon spread through Britain affecting...
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    complete annihilation of the British-Indian military-civilian column in January 1842. The British force defeated the Afghans twice in battle following which they...
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    Prince Alfred Louis of Liechtenstein (Alfred Aloys Eduard; 11 July 1842 in Prague – 8 October 1907 in Frauenthal castle) was the son of Prince Franz de...
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