Editing 1842

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== Events ==
* May 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: an unknown number of natives is killed by a reprisal party in retaliation for the [[murder]]s of several settlers in the Port Lincoln district at Pillaworta Station.
* August 14 - [[American Indian Wars]]: the Second Seminole War ends without a peace treaty, and 4,000 Seminoles are forcibly transported to Indian territory, and only 350 remained in Florida as of a result.
* Unknown - [[Indigenous Australian Genocide]]: at the Richmond River, a series of massacres begin against Bungjalung people. Bungjalung natives are killed in retaliation for the deaths of four settlers at Pelican Creek.
== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* June 16 - [[David Herold]]

=== Victim births ===
* April 14 - Catherine Eddowes