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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

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 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

  • 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)

    • References

    1342 Wikipedia
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