1742 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1742?
- January 24, 1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- February 16, 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
- April 13, 1742 – George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
Who Were Born In The Year 1742?
- January 24, 1742 – Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
- March 19, 1742 – Túpac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
- May 13, 1742 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
- June 17, 1742 – William Hooper, American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- July 1, 1742 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
- August 7, 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (d. 1786)
- September 8, 1742 – Ozias Humphrey, English artist (d. 1810)
- November 5, 1742 – Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
- December 16, 1742 – Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
- December 25, 1742 – Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827)
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