1842

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.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1842 MDCCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2595
Armenian calendar	1291 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6592
Balinese saka calendar	1763–1764
Bengali calendar	1249
Berber calendar	2792
British Regnal year	5 Vict. 1 – 6 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2386
Burmese calendar	1204
Byzantine calendar	7350–7351
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4538 or 4478     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4539 or 4479
Coptic calendar	1558–1559
Discordian calendar	3008
Ethiopian calendar	1834–1835
Hebrew calendar	5602–5603
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1898–1899
- Shaka Samvat	1763–1764
- Kali Yuga	4942–4943
Holocene calendar	11842
Igbo calendar	842–843
Iranian calendar	1220–1221
Islamic calendar	1257–1258
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 13 (天保１３年)
Javanese calendar	1769–1770
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4175
Minguo calendar	70 before ROC 民前70年
Nanakshahi calendar	374
Thai solar calendar	2384–2385
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1968 or 1587 or 815     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1969 or 1588 or 816

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.