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...

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...

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...

The 1842 United States elections occurred in the middle of President John Tyler's term, during the Second Party System. Tyler had become president on April...

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...

1842 Hynek, provisional designation 1972 AA, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter...

Events from the year 1842 in Canada. Monarch: Victoria Parliament: 1st Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (starting 12 January)...

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...

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...

Events in the year 1842 in India. The Earl of Ellenborough, Governor-General, 1842-44. 1st Afghan War, 1837-42. 16 January – Mahadev Govind Ranade, judge...

The 1842 general strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots, started among the miners in Staffordshire, England, and soon spread through Britain affecting...

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...

The year 1842 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward publishes On the Growth of Plants in Closely...

William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and...

David Robinson (November 22, 1754 – December 11, 1843) was a Vermont soldier active in the American Revolution, ultimately promoted to the rank of Major...

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...

The 1842 Liverpool by-election was held on 8 February 1842 and resulted in the election of the unopposed Conservative candidate Howard Douglas. It was...

of the Prague Conservatory (born 1766) "Performance History: 7 December 1842". New York Philharmonic. Retrieved 7 December 2021. "The Sydney Corporation...

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...

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...

Fernández A province with the same name was first created on October 27, 1842, being originally composed of the Valparaíso, Casablanca and Quillota Departments...

John Balfour (6 November 1750 – 15 October 1842) was a Scottish politician and a civil servant in the East India Company with connections to the Orcadian...

William Armistead (1762–1799) was a Revolutionary War drummer boy from Elizabeth City County, Virginia, who became a planter (and slaveowner) in North...

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...

the Tibetans under the Qing dynasty. The battle was fought on September 6, 1842, and ended as a Dogra victory. The Dogras had invaded Tibet in the Dogra–Tibetan...

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...

The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the...

The history of Peru between 1821 and 1842 is the period considered by the country's official historiography as the first stage of its republican history...

Events from the year 1842 in the United States. President: John Tyler (I-Virginia) Vice President: vacant Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland) Speaker...

complete annihilation of the British-Indian military-civilian column in January 1842. The British force defeated the Afghans twice in battle following which they...