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( 1840s: )     1842
1842 saw the founding of the Scroll and Key fraternity, that continues to this day.
year 1842

Scroll and Key

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Events

• January 6–13 – First Anglo-Afghan War – Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Battle of Gandamak): British East India Company troops are destroyed by Afghan forces on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammad Khan.
• March – Commonwealth v. Hunt: the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.
• May 11 – The Income Tax Act establishes the first peacetime income tax in the United Kingdom; 7 pence in the pound, for incomes over 150 pounds.
• May 19 – Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island, but are repulsed.
• June 18 – A primary school system is established in Sweden.
• August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part, of the Peninsula of East Florida.
• August 10 – The Mines Act 1842 becomes law, prohibiting underground work for all women and boys under 10 years old in the United Kingdom.
• August 14 – American Indian Wars: United States general William J. Worth declares the Second Seminole War to be over.
• August 29 – The Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty between Britain and Qing dynasty China, ends the First Opium War, and establishes Hong Kong as a British colony until 1997.

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• The Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Tahuata are declared a protectorate of France.
• Pentonville Prison in London begins to function.
• Beecham's Pills, as predecessor of Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) founded in Lancashire, England.

 

Event

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Pax Brittanica

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Scroll and Key		Secret society	A secret society of interest.
The Citadel		Senior Military College

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary
Karl Gether Bomhoff	1842		1925	Central banker Pharmacist
Peter Kropotkin	9 December 1842	Moscow Russian Empire	8 February 1921	Activist Philosopher Scientist

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