Major Events
- Feb 7 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien
- Aug 14 Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain [1]
- Aug 29 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ending the Opium war
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1842 in Music
- Mar 9 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
Did You Know?
Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
William James
Giovanni Giolitti
William B. Cushing
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Fun Fact About 1842
The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
Famous Weddings in 1842
- Jan 31 10th US President John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House
- Mar 26 Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi (34) weds Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (20) in Montevideo
- Apr 12 Sardinia king Victor Emmanuel II (22) weds queen Adelaide of Austria (20) at Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi
More Weddings in 1842
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe Verdi
John Tyler
Robert Peel