1342

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1339 1340 1341 – 1342 – 1343 1344 1345

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1342 (MCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1342nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 342nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 14th century, and the 3rd year of the 1340s decade. As of the start of 1342, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• May – Pope Clement VI becomes pope
• John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond
• Louis becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens
• Constantine IV becomes king of Armenia
• Patriarch of Antioch moved to Damascus while Ignatius II is king
• Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol
• Louis I becomes king of Hungary
• The Vijayanagara Empire is created in South India

Births

• January 15 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (died 1404)
• November 10 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (died 1408)
• Leo VI of Armenia
• Avignon Pope Clement VII (died 1394)
• Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (died 1373)
• Julian of Norwich, English mystic (died 1413)

Deaths

• January 29 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1279)
• April 24 – Pope Benedict XII
• July 16 – King Charles I of Hungary
• November 29 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (born 1270)
• Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist
• William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
• Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (born 1270)