942

This article is about the year 942.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	910s  920s  930s  – 940s –  950s  960s  970s
Years:	939 940 941 – 942 – 943 944 945

942 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

942 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	942 CMXLII
Ab urbe condita	1695
Armenian calendar	391 ԹՎ ՅՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	5692
Bahá'í calendar	-902–-901
Bengali calendar	349
Berber calendar	1892
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1486
Burmese calendar	304
Byzantine calendar	6450–6451
Chinese calendar	辛丑年十二月十二日 (3578/3638-12-12) — to — 壬寅年十一月廿一日 (3579/3639-11-21)
Coptic calendar	658–659
Ethiopian calendar	934–935
Hebrew calendar	4702–4703
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	998–999
- Shaka Samvat	864–865
- Kali Yuga	4043–4044
Holocene calendar	10942
Iranian calendar	320–321
Islamic calendar	330–331
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3275
Minguo calendar	970 before ROC 民前970年
Thai solar calendar	1485

Year 942 (CMXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Kaminarimon, the eight-pillared gate to Japan's Kinryuzan Sensouji Temple, is erected.
• The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, India.

Europe

• Hywel Dda, king of Deheubarth, annexes Gwynedd and Powys to become ruler of most of Wales.

By topic

Religion

• October 30 – Pope Marinus II succeeds Pope Stephen VIII as the 128th pope.

Births

• Pampa, Kannada poet in India
• Edgar of England (approximate date)
• Genshin (源信), influential Tendai scholar

Deaths

• Pope Stephen VIII
• King Idwal Foel of Gwynedd
• December 17 – William I of Normandy
• Gaozu of Later Jin, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty in China (b. 892)
• Liu Yan of the Southern Han Kingdom