1742

1742 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1742; MDCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2495
Armenian calendar	1191; ԹՎ ՌՃՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6492
Balinese saka calendar	1663–1664
Bengali calendar	1149
Berber calendar	2692
British Regnal year	15 Geo. 2 – 16 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2286
Burmese calendar	1104
Byzantine calendar	7250–7251
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster); 4439 or 4232; — to —; 壬戌年 (Water Dog); 4440 or 4233
Coptic calendar	1458–1459
Discordian calendar	2908
Ethiopian calendar	1734–1735
Hebrew calendar	5502–5503
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1798–1799
- Shaka Samvat	1663–1664
- Kali Yuga	4842–4843
Holocene calendar	11742
Igbo calendar	742–743
Iranian calendar	1120–1121
Islamic calendar	1154–1155
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 2; (寛保２年)
Javanese calendar	1666–1667
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4075
Minguo calendar	170 before ROC; 民前170年
Nanakshahi calendar	274
Thai solar calendar	2284–2285
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年; (female Iron-Rooster); 1868 or 1487 or 715; — to —; 阳水狗年; (male Water-Dog); 1869 or 1488 or 716

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century; 18th century ; 19th century;
Decades:	1720s; 1730s; 1740s ; 1750s; 1760s;
Years:	1739; 1740; 1741; 1742 ; 1743; 1744; 1745;

1742

Calendar year

1742 (MDCCXLII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1742nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 742nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1742, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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References

[1]
Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 309. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
[2]
R. B. Mowat, A New History of Great Britain: From the accession of James I to the Congress of Vienna (Oxford University Press, 1922) p464
[3]
"A dozen Downing Street departures". BBC News. May 9, 2007. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
[4]
Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Vol. 15 (1865, reprinted by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903) p319
[5]
"Appendix E: History of the Publication", by Paul A. Scanlon in Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding (Broadview Press, 2001) p504
[6]
International Military Alliances, 1648-2008, ed. by Douglas M. Gibler (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008) pp. 88, 105.
[7]
Doane Robinson, History of South Dakota (B. F. Bowen & Company, 1904) p53
[8]
"The Jewish living space in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: tendencies and ways of its formation", by Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, in Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) p24
[9]
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History, ed. by Kenneth Mills, et al. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) p302
[10]
"Goldbach's Conjectures: A Historical Perspective", by Robert C. Vaughan, in Open Problems in Mathematics, ed. by John Forbes Nash, Jr. and Michael Th. Rassias. Springer, 2016) p479
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"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p50
[12]
Edward J. Cashin, Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia (University of South Carolina Press, 2009) p57
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"Swift, Jonathan", by Donald C. Mell, in Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature, ed. by Robert Hogan (Macmillan, 2016) p652
[14]
I. S. Leadam, The Political History of England: The history of England from the accession of Anne to the death of George II, 1702-1760 (Longmans, Green and Co., 1909) p372
[15]
S. G. Tallentyre, The Life of Voltaire, Volume 1 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910) p141.
[16]
"Russo-Swedish War of 1741–43", in Dictionary of Wars, by George Childs Kohn (Routledge, 2013) p420
[17]
"Anson, George", by Keith A. Parker, in Historical Dictionary of the British Empire, ed. by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle (Greenwood Publishing, 1996) p68
[18]
Edward Heawood, "A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (Cambridge University Press, CUP Archive, 1912) p267
[19]
An Account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children (Foundling Hospital, 1826) p20
[20]
Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) p6
[21]
Lois Mulkearn, ed., George Mercer Papers: Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1954) p657
[22]
"Halley, Edmond". astro.uni-bonn.de.

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[Cassell's_Chronology309-1] [1]
Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 309. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[2] [2]
R. B. Mowat, A New History of Great Britain: From the accession of James I to the Congress of Vienna (Oxford University Press, 1922) p464

[3] [3]
"A dozen Downing Street departures". BBC News. May 9, 2007. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2007.

[4] [4]
Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Vol. 15 (1865, reprinted by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903) p319

[5] [5]
"Appendix E: History of the Publication", by Paul A. Scanlon in Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding (Broadview Press, 2001) p504

[6] [6]
International Military Alliances, 1648-2008, ed. by Douglas M. Gibler (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008) pp. 88, 105.

[7] [7]
Doane Robinson, History of South Dakota (B. F. Bowen & Company, 1904) p53

[8] [8]
"The Jewish living space in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: tendencies and ways of its formation", by Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, in Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) p24

[9] [9]
Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History, ed. by Kenneth Mills, et al. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) p302

[10] [10]
"Goldbach's Conjectures: A Historical Perspective", by Robert C. Vaughan, in Open Problems in Mathematics, ed. by John Forbes Nash, Jr. and Michael Th. Rassias. Springer, 2016) p479

[11] [11]
"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p50

[12] [12]
Edward J. Cashin, Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia (University of South Carolina Press, 2009) p57

[13] [13]
"Swift, Jonathan", by Donald C. Mell, in Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature, ed. by Robert Hogan (Macmillan, 2016) p652

[14] [14]
I. S. Leadam, The Political History of England: The history of England from the accession of Anne to the death of George II, 1702-1760 (Longmans, Green and Co., 1909) p372

[15] [15]
S. G. Tallentyre, The Life of Voltaire, Volume 1 (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910) p141.

[16] [16]
"Russo-Swedish War of 1741–43", in Dictionary of Wars, by George Childs Kohn (Routledge, 2013) p420

[17] [17]
"Anson, George", by Keith A. Parker, in Historical Dictionary of the British Empire, ed. by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle (Greenwood Publishing, 1996) p68

[18] [18]
Edward Heawood, "A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (Cambridge University Press, CUP Archive, 1912) p267

[19] [19]
An Account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children (Foundling Hospital, 1826) p20

[20] [20]
Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) p6

[21] [21]
Lois Mulkearn, ed., George Mercer Papers: Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1954) p657

[22] [22]
"Halley, Edmond". astro.uni-bonn.de.

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Gregorian calendar	1742 MDCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2495
Armenian calendar	1191 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6492
Balinese saka calendar	1663–1664
Bengali calendar	1149
Berber calendar	2692
British Regnal year	15 Geo. 2 – 16 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2286
Burmese calendar	1104
Byzantine calendar	7250–7251
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4439 or 4232 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4440 or 4233
Coptic calendar	1458–1459
Discordian calendar	2908
Ethiopian calendar	1734–1735
Hebrew calendar	5502–5503
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1798–1799
- Shaka Samvat	1663–1664
- Kali Yuga	4842–4843
Holocene calendar	11742
Igbo calendar	742–743
Iranian calendar	1120–1121
Islamic calendar	1154–1155
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 2 (寛保２年)
Javanese calendar	1666–1667
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4075
Minguo calendar	170 before ROC 民前170年
Nanakshahi calendar	274
Thai solar calendar	2284–2285
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1868 or 1487 or 715 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1869 or 1488 or 716