1742

1742 (MDCCXLII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.

1742 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1742 MDCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2495
Armenian calendar	1191 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6492
Balinese saka calendar	1663–1664
Bengali calendar	1149
Berber calendar	2692
British Regnal year	15 Geo. 2 – 16 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2286
Burmese calendar	1104
Byzantine calendar	7250–7251
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4438 or 4378     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4439 or 4379
Coptic calendar	1458–1459
Discordian calendar	2908
Ethiopian calendar	1734–1735
Hebrew calendar	5502–5503
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1798–1799
- Shaka Samvat	1663–1664
- Kali Yuga	4842–4843
Holocene calendar	11742
Igbo calendar	742–743
Iranian calendar	1120–1121
Islamic calendar	1154–1155
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 2 (寛保２年)
Javanese calendar	1666–1667
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4075
Minguo calendar	170 before ROC 民前170年
Nanakshahi calendar	274
Thai solar calendar	2284–2285
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 1868 or 1487 or 715     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 1869 or 1488 or 716

Events

• January 24 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• February 16 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• February 18 – British attack La Guayra.
• April 13 – The first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah, in Dublin.
• May 17 – Frederick the Great's army defeats Austrians in Chotusitz; later Austria cedes Silesia to Prussia
• May 25 – A battle is fought at Sahay.
• December 2 – The Pennsylvania Journal first appears in print.
• Daniel le Pelley succeeds Nicolas le Pelley as Seigneur of Sark.
• Kingdom of Prussia captures Jihlava.
• Christian Goldbach formulates Goldbach's conjecture.
• Colin Maclaurin publishes his Treatise on Fluxions.
• Anders Celsius proposes the Celsius temperature scale.
• James Bradley succeeds Edmond Halley as Astronomer Royal.
• Henry Fielding publishes Joseph Andrews.
• John Carteret, 2nd Lord Carteret becomes Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
• Rigging of Chippenham by-election causes a political scandal.
• William Pulteney created as 1st Earl of Bath.
• Robert Walpole was elevated to the peerage and thus moved from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, (see February 16, above).
• University of Erlangen is founded.
• Lopukhina Conspiracy at the Russian court.
• Molde in Norway becomes a city.
• Construction starts on the Foundling Hospital in London.
• Eisenach builds its Stadtschloss (city castle).
• In Peru, Juan Santon takes the name Atahualpa II and begins an ill-fated rebellion against the Spanish rule
• Afghan tribes unite as a monarchy.

Births

for more information, see Category:1742 births.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1742 deaths.