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Year 1142 (MCXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Unable to feed its population during a famine, the emir of the great commercial center of Mahdia has to recognize the de facto protectorate of Roger II of Sicily.
  • Failed Norman raid against the city of Tripoli.

    • Asia

  • October 11 – The Treaty of Shaoxing between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty, ending the Jurchen campaigns against the Song dynasty in China is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court.
  • 3-year-old Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.

    • Europe

  • Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony.

    • Births

  • Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)
  • Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)

    • Deaths

  • January 27 – Yue Fei, Chinese military leader, executed (b. 1103)
  • April 21 – Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
  • Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)

    • References

    1142 Wikipedia
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