What day of the week was March 9, 1842?

The day of the week March 9th, 1842 fell on was a Wednesday. There were 18 days until Easter Sunday.

Giuseppe Verdi's third opera the Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers. The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco the six years before the California Gold Rush.