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| 1841 |
| | | With a teetotallers' rail trip for 570 people, Thomas Cook introduces the notion of the package tour | |
|  | Travel poster for Cook's Tours, 1904
National Archives, Kew
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| 1841 |
| | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems includes 'The Village Blacksmith' and 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' | |
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| 1841 |
| | | US social reformer Catherine Beecher publishes an influential book to empower women, Treatise on Domestic Economy | |
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| c. 1841 |
| | | Britain sends four naval ships up the river Niger to make anti-slavery treaties with local kings | |
|  | Anti-slavery treaty with African chiefs
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | Robert Peel's Conservative administration reintroduces income tax in Britain, at a fixed level of approximately 3% | |
|  | Victoria and Albert pay income tax in a Punch cartoon of 1842
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | Lord Shaftesbury's Mines Act makes it illegal for boys under 13, and women and girls of any age, to be employed underground in Britain | |
|  | Pit girls photographed in 1893 near Wigan
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | The British abandon Kabul, losing most of the garrison force in the withdrawal to India and bringing to an end the first Anglo-Afghan war | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The success of the opera Nabucco, premiered in Milan, is a turning point in the fortunes of Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell pioneers mass political demonstrations, which become known as 'monster meetings' | |
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