1842
Mid-eighteen hundreds
1842 is a year in the nineteenth century, between 1841 and 1843.
Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a specific point in historical time: The treaty was signed in 1842.
Years appear in dates, historical references, and vintage designations: an 1842 Bordeaux.
- Opium WarsColonial drug-trade conflicts
- Morse codeDot-dash signaling system
- telegraph linesElectrical message transmission cables
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
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