What Happened in December 1842

Historical Events

Dec 3 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist and co-founder (Pillsbury Company), born in Warner, New Hampshire (d. 1899)
Dec 3 Ellen Henrietta Richards, American chemist (Amer Home Economics Association-1st Pres), born in Dunstable, Massachusetts (d. 1911)
Dec 3 Phoebe Hearst, American philanthropist and suffragist, born in Franklin County, Missouri (d. 1919)
Dec 7 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist and sociologist (schedelmetingen), born in Karlsruhe, Baden (d. 1916)
Dec 9 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Russian activist and anarchist, born in Moscow (d. 1921)
Dec 15 Henry Gadsby, English musician and composer, born in Hackney, England (d. 1907)
Dec 17 Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (continuous groups), born in Nordfjordeid, Norway (d. 1899)
Dec 24 Nicola d' Arienzo, Italian composer and writer, born in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1915)
Dec 28 Calixa Lavallee, Canadian composer (O Canada), born in Verchères, British Province of Canada (d. 1891)

Dec 1 Philip Spencer, American sailor, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged aboard the USS Somers at 19
Dec 5 Marie-Jean Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer, dies at 82
Dec 7 Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
Dec 10 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, British general (fought with Wellington at Waterloo, Commander-in-Chief British army 1828), dies at 70
Dec 12 Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist and philanthropist (built tabenacles), dies at 78
Dec 25 Bedrich Divis Weber, Bohemian composer and musicologist, dies at 76