What is 1742?
{{Year nav|1742}} {{Year in various calendars|1742}} {{Year article header|1742}} == Events == *[[January 24]] – [[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor|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 (Handel)|Messiah]]'', in [[Dublin]]. * [[May 17]] – [[Frederick the Great]]'s army defeats [[Austria]]ns 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, Wiltshire|Chippenham]] by-election causes a political scandal. *[[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath|William Pulteney]] created as 1st [[Earl of Bath]]. *[[Robert Walpole]] was elevated to the peerage and thus moved from the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|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, Germany|Eisenach]] builds its ''Stadtschloss'' (city castle). * In [[Peru]], Juan Santon takes the name [[Atahualpa II]] and begins an ill-fated rebellion against the [[Spain|Spanish]] rule * [[Afghan