1742

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1742 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1742
MDCCXLII
Ab urbe condita2495
Armenian calendar1191
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԱ
Assyrian calendar6492
Balinese saka calendar1663–1664
Bengali calendar1149
Berber calendar2692
British Regnal year15 Geo. 2 – 16 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2286
Burmese calendar1104
Byzantine calendar7250–7251
Chinese calendar辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
4438 or 4378
    — to —
壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4439 or 4379
Coptic calendar1458–1459
Discordian calendar2908
Ethiopian calendar1734–1735
Hebrew calendar5502–5503
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1798–1799
 - Shaka Samvat1663–1664
 - Kali Yuga4842–4843
Holocene calendar11742
Igbo calendar742–743
Iranian calendar1120–1121
Islamic calendar1154–1155
Japanese calendarKanpō 2
(寛保2年)
Javanese calendar1666–1667
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4075
Minguo calendar170 before ROC
民前170年
Nanakshahi calendar274
Thai solar calendar2284–2285
Tibetan calendar阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
1868 or 1487 or 715
    — to —
阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1869 or 1488 or 716
April 13: First performance of Handel's Messiah.

1742 (MDCCXLII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1742nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 742nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1742, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April –June

July–September

  • July 7War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Bloody Marsh – British troops repel those of Spain (under Montiano), in the Province of Georgia.
  • July 14William Pulteney is created 1st Earl of Bath in Great Britain.
  • August 17
    • Accompanied by 10 French Army observers, Choctaw Indians from the French Louisiana territory cross the Tombigbee River and raid Chickasaw Indian towns in Georgia. Over three days, the attackers lose 50 men, the Chickasaw defenders about 25. For permitting the attack, the French Louisiana governor, the Sieur de Bienville, is summoned back to Paris.
    • Irish author and poet Dean Jonathan Swift is declared by a court to be "of unsound mind and memory" and confined to home treatment for the remaining three years of his life.
  • August 19
    • A British fleet led by Commodore William Martin enters the harbor of Naples with three warships, two frigates, and four bomb vessels, and sends a message giving the King Charles VII of Naples (the future King Charles III of Spain) 30 minutes to agree to withdraw Neapolitan troops from the Spanish Army. Don Carlos agrees and ends the threat of a Spanish foothold in Italy.
    • Voltaire's controversial play Fanatacism, or Mahomet the Prophet is first performed, in Paris, to a theatre audience filled with French nobility.
  • August 20 – The Swedish-Russian War effectively ends as 17,000 Swedish troops surrender in Finland at Helsingfors (modern-day Helsinki).
  • August 27George Anson, captain of HMS Centurion, arrives with his seriously ill crew at the island of Tinian (now U.S. territory as one of the Northern Mariana Islands and saves his mission.
  • September 5 – The 46 survivors of Russia's Great Northern Expedition return to Petropavlovsk after having been shipwrecked on an island in the Bering Strait ten months earlier. They had completed the building of a new ship from the wreckage of the St Pyotr on August 21.
  • September 16 – Construction starts on the Foundling Hospital in London.

October–December

Date unknown

Births

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
James Wilson
Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Deaths

Edmond Halley
Susanna Wesley

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