1842

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  – 1840s –  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1839 1840 1841 – 1842 – 1843 1844 1845

1842 Media

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  July 21: The Battle of Chinkiang is fought between British and Chinese troops.

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  August 29: The Treaty of Nanking is signed, ending the Opium War between Britain and China.

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  A portrait of the German writer Karl May by Erwin Raupp.

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  Susan Augusta Pike Sanders

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  Carl von Linde

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  Official Portrait of Prince Abdulhamid at Balmoral Castle in 1867.

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  Madeleine Brès (1842-1921)

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  John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

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  ClemensBrentano

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  Grace Darling by Thomas Musgrave Joy (9 July, 1812 – 7 April, 1866) - a painter known principally for his portraits.

1842 (MDCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1842nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 842nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1842, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Art, music, theatre, literature

• March 26 - August Bournonville's Napoli is first performed in Copenhagen by the Royal Danish Ballet

Births

• January 11 – William James, American philosopher and psychologist
• September 21 – Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Deaths

• October 30 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and writer.