Timeline August 1742

Events in August 1742 3

• 1742 Bering Expedition Survivors Reach Kamchatka Confirmation of the Russian discovery of Alaska Survivors of Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition, shipwrecked the previous winter on what is now Bering Island, sailed a rebuilt vessel to Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. They brought back sea otter pelts and confirmed the expedition's sighting of the Alaskan coast. Their report spurred Russian fur-trading expansion into the Aleutian Islands and Alaska.
• 1742 – 1786 Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) Died 19 June 1786, aged 43 Nathanael Greene, one of George Washington's most trusted generals during the American Revolutionary War, died of sunstroke near Savannah, Georgia. His campaign of strategic retreat and attrition in the Carolinas is credited with breaking British control of the American South. Congress and several states had granted him land in recognition of his wartime service.
• 1742 – 1823 Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) Died 20 August 1823, aged 81 Born Barnaba Chiaramonti, Pius VII reigned as pope through the Napoleonic era, including his own imprisonment by Napoleon and the signing of the 1801 Concordat with France. He presided over the restoration of the Papal States after Napoleon's fall. He died in Rome after a long pontificate marked by upheaval.