1342

This article is about the year 1342.

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

1342 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1342 in poetry

1342 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1342 MCCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2095
Armenian calendar	791 ԹՎ ՉՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6092
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	1264–1265
- Kali Yuga	4443–4444
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)
Julian calendar	1342 MCCCXLII
Korean calendar	3675
Minguo calendar	570 before ROC 民前570年
Thai solar calendar	1884–1885

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

Events

January–December

• May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII as the 198th pope.
• July 16 – Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
• July 18 – Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars in the Battle of Zava.
• August 15 – Louis "the Child" becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens.
• September 4 – John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond.

Date unknown

• 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 Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency in the ongoing Byzantine civil war.

Births

• January 15 – 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

• 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
• 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)
• probable – Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)