1342
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This article is about the year 1342.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s |
| Years: | 1339 1340 1341 – 1342 – 1343 1344 1345 |
| 1342 by topic | |
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| 1342 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1342 MCCCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2095 |
| Armenian calendar | 791 ԹՎ ՉՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6092 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -502–-501 |
| Bengali calendar | 749 |
| Berber calendar | 2292 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Edw. 3 – 16 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1886 |
| Burmese calendar | 704 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6850–6851 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十一月廿四日 (3978/4038-11-24) — to —
壬午年十二月初四日(3979/4039-12-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 1058–1059 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1334–1335 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5102–5103 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1398–1399 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1264–1265 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4443–4444 |
| Holocene calendar | 11342 |
| Iranian calendar | 720–721 |
| Islamic calendar | 742–743 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3675 |
| Minguo calendar | 570 before ROC 民前570年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1885 |
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Year 1342 (MCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII as the 198th pope.
- July 16 – Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
- August 15 – Louis "the Child" becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens.
- September 4 – John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond.
[edit] Date unknown
- Guy de Lusignan becomes King Gosdantin II of Armenia.
- The Patriarch of Antioch is transferred to Damascus under Ignatius II.
- Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.
- The Vijayanagara Empire is established in South India.
- The Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency in the ongoing Byzantine civil war.
[edit] Births
- January 15 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
- April 6 – Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa (d. after 1363)
- November 8 – Julian of Norwich, English mystic (approximate date; d. 1413)
- date unknown
- Levon V Lusignan of Armenia (d. 1393)
- Avignon Pope Clement VII (d. 1394)
- Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (d. 1373)
- John Trevisa, English translator (d. 1402)
[edit] Deaths
- January 29 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
- February 16 – William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
- April 24 – Pope Benedict XII
- July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary
- November 29 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
- date unknown
- Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist
- Peter Paludanus, French bishop and theologian (b. c. 1275)
- probable – Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)
