24th January » Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor or Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
16th February » Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington e.g Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom called British Prime Minister.
Famous Birthdays in 1742
24th January » Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
19th March » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel leader (d. 1781)
6th May » Jean Senebier, Swiss physiologist (d. 1809)
13th May » Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
28th June » William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1790)
1st July » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (d. 1799)
7th August » Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
8th September » Ozias Humphry, English painter (d. 1810)
6th October » Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet (d. 1755)
5th November » Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
16th December » Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal (d. 1819)
25th December » Charlotte von Stein, German assistant of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1827)
Famous Deaths in History for 1742
14th January » Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656)
22nd February » Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
23rd March » Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (b. 1670)
2nd April » James Douglas (physician) known as James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
16th April » Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (b. 1672)
17th April » Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician (b. 1664)
21st May » Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
26th May » Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672)
18th June » John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1670)
4th July » Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671)
9th July » John Oldmixon, English historian, poet, and playwright (b. 1673)
14th July » Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (b. 1662)
19th July » William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
25th August » Carlos Seixas, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1704)
24th September » Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1684)
27th September » Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672)
28th September » Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
12th November » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
20th November » Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661)
31st December » Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)