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Year 942 (CMXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, on the Indian subcontinent.

    • Europe

  • December 17 – William I, Duke of Normandy, is ambushed by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, while the two are at a peace conference to settle their differences.
  • Hywel Dda, king of Deheubarth, annexes Gwynedd and Powys, to become ruler of most of Wales.
  • A Hungarian army attacks Umayyad Spain. They besiege the cities of Lerida, Cerdanya, Huesca, than they capture Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn al Tawil, the ruler of the town Barbastro.

    • Religion

  • October 30 – Pope Marinus II succeeds Pope Stephen VIII, as the 128th pope.

    • Births

  • Pampa, Kannada poet in India
  • Genshin (源信), influential Tendai scholar
  • Empress Wang (Taizu)

    • Deaths

  • February 13 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, amir al-umara
  • November 18 – Odo of Cluny, saint and second abbot of Cluny (b. c. 878)
  • Pope Stephen VIII
  • King Idwal Foel of Gwynedd
  • December 17 – William I of Normandy
  • Gaozu of Later Jin, founder of the Later Jin dynasty in China (b. 892)
  • Liu Yan of the Southern Han Kingdom

    • References

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