Page 3: Historical Events In 1842

May 23   Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34.   

May 30   Assassination attempt made on Queen Victoria.   

May 30   John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria   

Jun 02   Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher   

Jun 06   James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art).   

Jun 11   Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician   

Jun 12   Rikard Nordraak, composer   

Jun 16   Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die.   

Jun 19   Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer.   

Jun 20   Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60.   

Jun 24   Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)   

Jun 29   Josef Labor, composer.   

Jul 04   Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal.   

Jul 04   inaugural test of electrically operated underwater torpedo sinks gunboat Boxer   

Jul 09   Notary Stamp Law passes   

Jul 24   Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets and Dust).   

Jul 24   John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies.   

Jul 26   Alfred Marshall, London, economist   

Jul 28   C Brentano, writer, dies at 63.   

Aug 01   Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens.   

Aug 09   US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty   

Aug 09   US-Canada border defined   

Aug 14   Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author.   

Aug 14   Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma   

Aug 20   Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter   

Aug 21   The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.   

Aug 24   Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market).   

Aug 25   Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80.   

Aug 26   Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)   

Aug 28   Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist.   

Aug 29   Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

Aug 29   Gr Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war.   

Aug 29   Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain   

Aug 30   Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer.   

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Jan 02   Amy g c a bonet-maury: French reformed theologist   

Jan 04   Frederic t. greenhalge: 38th governor of massachusetts   

Jan 06   Clarence king: Mining engineer (geologist)   

Jan 07   Johan lindegren: Composer   

Jan 11   William james: Us, psychologist/philosopher   

Jan 12   Francois coppee: French poet   

Jan 15   Blessed mary mckillop: Australian candidate for sainthood   

Jan 15   Josef breuer: Austrian psychologist    

Jan 08   Pierre: Earl the cambronne, fren general (waterloo, elba),   

Jan 16   Thomas freanby: Norwegian landscape painter,    

Feb 18   Thomas hazlehurst: English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779)   

Feb 21   Wojciech zywny: Composer,   

Mar 06   Constanze mozart: Wife of w.a. mozart (b. 1763)   

Mar 07   Christian theodor weinlig: Composer,   

Mar 13   Henry shrapnel: British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)   

Mar 15   Maria luigi c z s cherubini: Italian composer (