1342

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.

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

1342 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1342 MCCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2095
Armenian calendar	791 ԹՎ ՉՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6092
Balinese saka calendar	1263–1264
Bengali calendar	749
Berber calendar	2292
English Regnal year	15 Edw. 3 – 16 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1886
Burmese calendar	704
Byzantine calendar	6850–6851
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4038 or 3978     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4039 or 3979
Coptic calendar	1058–1059
Discordian calendar	2508
Ethiopian calendar	1334–1335
Hebrew calendar	5102–5103
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1398–1399
- Shaka Samvat	1263–1264
- Kali Yuga	4442–4443
Holocene calendar	11342
Igbo calendar	342–343
Iranian calendar	720–721
Islamic calendar	742–743
Japanese calendar	Ryakuō 5 / Kōei 1 (康永元年)
Javanese calendar	1254–1255
Julian calendar	1342 MCCCXLII
Korean calendar	3675
Minguo calendar	570 before ROC 民前570年
Nanakshahi calendar	−126
Thai solar calendar	1884–1885
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1468 or 1087 or 315     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1469 or 1088 or 316

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)