Page 4: Historical Events In 1842

Aug 31   Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine.   

Aug 31   US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress.   

Sep 04   Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus   

Sep 04   Work on K”ln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus   

Sep 05   Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare)   

Sep 07   John H Zuckertort, German chess player   

Sep 10   Letitia Tyler, Pres Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51   

Sep 13   Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer   

Sep 15   Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70   

Sep 18   1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published.   

Sep 20   James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)   

Sep 23   Karl Munzinger, composer   

Oct 01   Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur)   

Oct 02   Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer, dies at 56.   

Oct 08   Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68.   

Oct 08   Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach.   

Oct 15   Karl Marx is recorded as becoming editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung.   

Oct 24   Josef Nesvera, composer.   

Oct 27   Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921)   

Oct 28   Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)   

Nov 02   Otto Reubke, composer   

Nov 04   Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.   

Nov 04   William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874   

Nov 08   Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)   

Nov 14   Henry de Cock, reform vicar, dies at 41.   

Nov 14   Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959).   

Nov 15   Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43.   

Nov 17   Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston.   

Nov 22   Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom).   

Nov 22   Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts   

Nov 23   James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain).   

Nov 24   Pehr Frigel, composer, dies at 92.   

Dec 01   Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, is hanged for mutiny from the yardarm of the U.S.S. Somers, a small brig of war at sea in West Indian waters. He was convicted at a court-martial held on the ship of conspiring to organize a mutiny, murder the officers, and convert the captured ship into a pirate vessel   

Dec 01   Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged.   

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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 (