1142

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1139 1140 1141 – 1142 – 1143 1144 1145

Africa

• When it was 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

• Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.

Europe

• Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony.
• The Empress Maud grants Oakley, Buckinghamshire Church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove, to the monks of St. Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford.

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 (b. 1103)
• April 21 – Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)
• Orderic Vitalis, English chronicler (b. 1075)

1142 Media

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  Duke Henry the Lion (c. 1129–1195)