1342

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

1342 in various calendars

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) 4039 or 3832     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4040 or 3833
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

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

Pope Benedict XII

Events

January–December

• January 21–June 27 – An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt, rules prior to being deposed by his half-brother As-Salih Ismail.
• May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII, as the 198th Pope.
• July 16 – Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
• July 18 – Battle of Zava: Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars.
• July 22 – St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
• August 15 – Louis "the Child", age 4, succeeds his father, Peter II, king of Sicily and duke of Athens; he is crowned on September 15 in Palermo Cathedral.
• September 4 – John III of Trebizond (John III Comnenus) becomes emperor of Trebizond.

Date unknown

• Guy de Lusignan becomes Constantine II, King of Armenia (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ).
• The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is transferred to Damascus, under Ignatius II.
• Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.
• Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 – The Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency.

Births

• January 17 – 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)

Deaths

• March 31 – Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Augustinian friar
• April 25 – Pope Benedict XII
• July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary
• September 4 – Anna Anachoutlou, Empress of Trebizond
• 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)
  • William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
• probable – Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)