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Year 1442 (MCDXLII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • March 18–25 – Battle of Hermannstadt: John Hunyadi defeats an army of the Ottoman Empire 80,000 strong, led by Mesid Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu in Transylvania.
  • June 2 – Alfonso of Aragon proclaimed himself King of Naples.

    • Date unknown

  • The community of Rauma, Finland is granted its town rights.
  • The municipality of Juva, Finland is founded.
  • Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced as ruler of Wallachia by his son Mircea.
  • A fourth tower is added to Liverpool Castle in England.
  • Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate.

    • Births

  • April 13 – Henry IV of Neuhaus, High Treasurer of Bohemia (1485–1503), Burgrave of Prague Castle (1503–1507) (d. 1507)
  • April 15 – John Paston, English noble (d. 1479)
  • April 28 – King Edward IV of England, King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 to 3 October 1480 (d. 1483)
  • July 3 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
  • July 15 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (d. 1496)
  • September 8 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (d. 1513)
  • September 27 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1491)
  • date unknown
  • Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (d. 1493)
  • Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian archbishop (d. 1521)
  • Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI
  • probable – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (d. 1483)

    • Deaths

  • August 29 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
  • October 18 – Infante João of Portugal (b. 1400)
  • December 18 – Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
  • date unknown
  • Al-Maqrizi, Arab historian
  • Ahmed Shah, Sultan of Gujarat

    • References

    1442 Wikipedia
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