1342
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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 |
Gregorian calendar | 1342 MCCCXLII |
Ab urbe condita | 2095 |
Armenian calendar | 791 ԹՎ ՉՂԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6092 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1263–1264 |
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 (Metal Snake) 4038 or 3978 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4039 or 3979 |
Coptic calendar | 1058–1059 |
Discordian calendar | 2508 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1334–1335 |
Hebrew calendar | 5102–5103 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1398–1399 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1263–1264 |
- Kali Yuga | 4442–4443 |
Holocene calendar | 11342 |
Igbo calendar | 342–343 |
Iranian calendar | 720–721 |
Islamic calendar | 742–743 |
Japanese calendar | Ryakuō 5 / Kōei 1 (康永元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1254–1255 |
Julian calendar | 1342 MCCCXLII |
Korean calendar | 3675 |
Minguo calendar | 570 before ROC 民前570年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −126 |
Thai solar calendar | 1884–1885 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1468 or 1087 or 315 — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1469 or 1088 or 316 |
1342 (MCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1342nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 342nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 14th century, and the 3rd year of the 1340s decade. As of the start of 1342, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
[change | change source]- May – Pope Clement VI becomes pope
- John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond
- Louis becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens
- Constantine IV becomes king of Armenia
- Patriarch of Antioch moved to Damascus while Ignatius II is king
- Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol
- Louis I becomes king of Hungary
- The Vijayanagara Empire is created in South India
Births
[change | change source]- January 15 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (died 1404)
- November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (died 1408)
- Leo VI of Armenia
- Avignon Pope Clement VII (died 1394)
- Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (died 1373)
- Julian of Norwich, English mystic (died 1413)
Deaths
[change | change source]- January 29 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1279)
- April 24 – Pope Benedict XII
- July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary
- November 29 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (born 1270)
- Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist
- William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
- Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (born 1270)