1342

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Years:	1339 1340 1341 - 1342 - 1343 1344 1345

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

Contents 1 Events of 1342 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1342

• May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII as the 198th pope.
• July 16 – Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
• August 15 – Louis "the Child" becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens.
• September 4 – John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond.

[edit] Undated

• 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 Vijayanagara Empire is established in South India.

1342 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1342 MCCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2095
Armenian calendar	791 ԹՎ ՉՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-502 – -501
Berber calendar	2292
Buddhist calendar	1886
Burmese calendar	704
Byzantine calendar	6850 – 6851
Chinese calendar	辛巳年十一月廿四日 (3978/4038-11-24) — to — 壬午年十二月初四日 (3979/4039-12-4)
Coptic calendar	1058 – 1059
Ethiopian calendar	1334 – 1335
Hebrew calendar	5102 – 5103
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1397 – 1398
- Shaka Samvat	1264 – 1265
- Kali Yuga	4443 – 4444
Holocene calendar	11342
Iranian calendar	720 – 721
Islamic calendar	742 – 743
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3675
Thai solar calendar	1885
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[edit] 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 (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)

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[edit] 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
• 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)

Also see Category:1342 deaths.