1342

	1342 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1339 1340 1341 – 1342 – 1343 1344 1345

Year 1342 (MCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1342

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.

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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)

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