What Happened in January 1842

Historical Events

Jan 3 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia

Jan 6 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before reaching India

Jan 7 Gioachino Rossini's cantata "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris

Jan 8 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
Jan 12 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
Jan 13 Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
Jan 22 Charles Dickens arrives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, Catherine

Jan 2 Amy Gaston Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, born in Paris (d. 1919)
Jan 4 Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
Jan 6 Clarence King, American geologist & mountaineer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1901)
Jan 7 Johan Lindegren, Swedish composer, musician and teacher, born in Ullared, Sweden (d. 1908)

Jan 11 American psychologist (The Principles of Psychology) and philosopher (Pragmatism), born in NYC, New York

Jan 12 Francois Coppee, French poet, born in Paris (d. 1908)
Jan 15 Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian nun & candidate for sainthood, born in Fitzroy, Australia (d. 1909)
Jan 15 Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1925)
Jan 18 Albert Alonzo Ames, American politician, famously corrupt Mayor of Minneapolis, born in Garden Prairie, Illinois (d. 1911)
Jan 22 Henri Maréchal, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1924)
Jan 28 Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, Russian imperial historian, born in Penza Governorate, Russia (d. 1911)

Jan 31 10th US President John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House

Jan 8 Pierre Cambronne, French General during the wars of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, dies at 71
Jan 16 Thomas Fearnley, Norwegian landscape painter, dies of typhoid fever at 39