1342

Year 1342 was a common year starting on Tuesday and current year of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

January 21-June 27 - An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt, rules prior to being deposed by his half-brother As-Salih Ismail.
May 7 - Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII, as the 198th Pope.
July 16 - Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
July 18 - Battle of Zava: Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars.
July 22 - St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
August 15 - Louis "the Child", age 4, succeeds his father, Peter II, as king of Sicily and duke of Athens; he is crowned on September 15 in Palermo Cathedral.
September 4 - John III of Trebizond becomes emperor of Trebizond.
Date unknown
Guy de Lusignan becomes Constantine II, King of Armenia.
The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is transferred to Damascus, under Ignatius II.
Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.
Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 - The Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency.
Births
January 17 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
April 6 - Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa
November 8 - Julian of Norwich, English mystic
date unknown
* Levon V Lusignan of Armenia
* Avignon Pope Clement VII
* Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
* John Trevisa, English translator
Deaths
March 31 - Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Augustinian friar
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
date unknown
* Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist
* Peter Paludanus, French bishop and theologian
* William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
probable - Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar