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| 1842 |
| | | Edwin Pearce Christy launches the Virginia Minstrels, later to become America's most popular minstrel show under the name Christy's Minstrels | |
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| 1842 |
| | | English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Austrian physicist Christian Doppler explains the acoustic effect now known by his name | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The publication of the first part of the satirical novel Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, proves a sensation in Russia | |
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| 1842 |
| | | US showman P.T. Barnum draws huge crowds to the New York premises where his attractions include 'General Tom Thumb', a 4-year-old midget | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1842 |
| | | English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome | |
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| 1842 |
| | | US secretary of state Daniel Webster and British negotiator Lord Ashburton resolve US-Canadian boundary disputes | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The First Opium War ends with the island of Hong Kong, and extensive new trading rights, ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Thomas Young, a tea merchant, builds a new house on the site of the original Pope's Villa. | |
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