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| South America & Caribbean:Peru and Uruguay burdened by civil wars. University of Chile. | |||||||||||
| North America:A treaty settles Canadian border at Maine. The U. S. House censurs Joshua R. Giddings for introducing anti-slavery resolutions; he resigns but is re-elected. Childeren under 12 limited to 10 hours of labor per day in Massachusetts. John Fremont maps the Oregon Trail. Boston and Albany New York connected by rail. Georgia surgeon uses ether as general anaesthesia. Notre Dame, Villanova universities begin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette begins publication; Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. P. T. Barnum exhibits Tom Thumb; New York Philharmonic. Gimbel's Deparment store begins in Vincennes, Ind. Crude air conditioning in Apalachicola, Florida. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Mines Act in Britain bans labor by girls, women and boys under 10 in mines. Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning; Donnizetti, Richard Wagner, Mendelssohn. French sugar beet factories produce two pounds per capita. Vienna has 15,000 coffee houses. | |||||||||||
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March 1842
March, 13; St. Charles Theatre burns down. |
April 1842
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June 1842
As Jacksonian ranks rise in New Orleans and northern Louisiana their champion Alexander Mouton defeats Whig candidate and former governor Henry S. Johnson 9,669 votes to 8,104. |
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| The D. H. Holmes chain of Department stores first opens its doors in 1842 will serve local families until it is bought by the Dillard’s chain in 1989 closing the venerable Canal street location. | Advocate in Baton Rouge - still in publication today as the Morning Advocate. |
François-Marie Prevost Sara Morgan Dawson Henry C. Warmoth |
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