1042

1042 (MXLII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1042nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 42nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 11th century, and the 3rd year of the 1040s decade. As of the start of 1042, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Constantine IX (left).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1039 1040 1041 – 1042 – 1043 1044 1045

1042 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1042 MXLII
Ab urbe condita	1795
Armenian calendar	491 ԹՎ ՆՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	5792
Balinese saka calendar	963–964
Bengali calendar	449
Berber calendar	1992
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1586
Burmese calendar	404
Byzantine calendar	6550–6551
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3738 or 3678     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3739 or 3679
Coptic calendar	758–759
Discordian calendar	2208
Ethiopian calendar	1034–1035
Hebrew calendar	4802–4803
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1098–1099
- Shaka Samvat	963–964
- Kali Yuga	4142–4143
Holocene calendar	11042
Igbo calendar	42–43
Iranian calendar	420–421
Islamic calendar	433–434
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 3 (長久３年)
Javanese calendar	945–946
Julian calendar	1042 MXLII
Korean calendar	3375
Minguo calendar	870 before ROC 民前870年
Nanakshahi calendar	−426
Seleucid era	1353/1354 AG
Thai solar calendar	1584–1585
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1168 or 787 or 15     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1169 or 788 or 16

Events

• Edward the Confessor becomes King of England.

Births

• Pope Urban II (died 1099)

Deaths

• Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)