542
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This article is about the year 542. For the number, see 542 (number). For other uses, see 542 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s – 540s – 550s 560s 570s |
| Years: | 539 540 541 – 542 – 543 544 545 |
| 542 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 542 DXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1295 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5292 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1302–-1301 |
| Bengali calendar | -51 |
| Berber calendar | 1492 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1086 |
| Burmese calendar | -96 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6050–6051 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年十一月廿九日 (3178/3238-11-29) — to —
壬戌年十二月初九日(3179/3239-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 258–259 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 534–535 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4302–4303 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 598–599 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 464–465 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3643–3644 |
| Holocene calendar | 10542 |
| Iranian calendar | 80 BP – 79 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 83 BH – 81 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2875 |
| Minguo calendar | 1370 before ROC 民前1370年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1085 |
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Year 542 (DXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. From this year forward, the appointment of particular Roman consuls was abandoned and the office was merged with that of Byzantine emperor. Thus, the consular year dating was abandoned in practice, even though it formally remained until the end of the 9th century. The denomination 542 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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[edit] Byzantine Empire
- An outbreak of the plague kills at least 230,000 in Constantinople (before they stopped counting) and perhaps two million or more in the rest of the Empire. This was the Justinian plague. Emperor Justinian, the renewer of the greatness of Rome's empire and patron of the world's greatest religious building, the Hagia Sophia, contracted the disease and recovered.
[edit] Europe
- Ostrogoth king Totila reconquers Naples, Benevento, and other parts of Italy.
- Childebert I captures Pamplona and besieges Zaragoza.
