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This article is about the year 1142.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1110s 1120s 1130s – 1140s – 1150s 1160s 1170s |
| Years: | 1139 1140 1141 – 1142 – 1143 1144 1145 |
| 1142 by topic | |
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| 1142 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1142 MCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1895 |
| Armenian calendar | 591 ԹՎ ՇՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5892 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -702–-701 |
| Bengali calendar | 549 |
| Berber calendar | 2092 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Ste. 1 – 8 Ste. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1686 |
| Burmese calendar | 504 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6650–6651 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年十二月初三日 (3778/3838-12-3) — to —
壬戌年十二月十三日(3779/3839-12-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 858–859 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1134–1135 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4902–4903 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1198–1199 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1064–1065 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4243–4244 |
| Holocene calendar | 11142 |
| Iranian calendar | 520–521 |
| Islamic calendar | 536–537 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3475 |
| Minguo calendar | 770 before ROC 民前770年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1685 |
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Year 1142 (MCXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By area
[edit] Africa
- Unable to feed its population during a famine, the emir of the great commercial center of Mahdia has to recognize the de facto protectorate of Roger II of Sicily.[1]
- Failed Norman raid against the city of Tripoli.[2]
[edit] Asia
- Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.
[edit] Europe
- Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony.
- The Empress Maud grants Oakley, Buckinghamshire Church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove, to the monks of St. Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford.
[edit] Births
- Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)
- Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)
[edit] Deaths
- January 27 – Yue Fei, Chinese military leader (b. 1103)
- April 21 – Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
- Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)
[edit] References
- ^ Abulafia, David (1985). The Norman kingdom of Africa and the Norman expeditions to Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0851154166. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4DZf-RBtZ7IC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=Norman+crusaders+and+the+Catalan+reconquest:+Robert+Burdet+and+the+principality+of+Tarragona+1129-55&source=bl&ots=cZMDAs578x&sig=Zqnswn_kjGEIjfxLYW1Ouhchr3Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BwEAT_OKJtKg8gPMwI3MAQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ Bresc, Henri (2003). La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age. http://www.storiamediterranea.it/public/md1_dir/b1462.pdf. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
