242

Year 242 (CCXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	210s  220s  230s  – 240s –  250s  260s  270s
Years:	239 240 241 – 242 – 243 244 245

242 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	242 CCXLII
Ab urbe condita	995
Assyrian calendar	4992
Balinese saka calendar	163–164
Bengali calendar	−351
Berber calendar	1192
Buddhist calendar	786
Burmese calendar	−396
Byzantine calendar	5750–5751
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2938 or 2878     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2939 or 2879
Coptic calendar	−42 – −41
Discordian calendar	1408
Ethiopian calendar	234–235
Hebrew calendar	4002–4003
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	298–299
- Shaka Samvat	163–164
- Kali Yuga	3342–3343
Holocene calendar	10242
Iranian calendar	380 BP – 379 BP
Islamic calendar	392 BH – 391 BH
Javanese calendar	120–121
Julian calendar	242 CCXLII
Korean calendar	2575
Minguo calendar	1670 before ROC 民前1670年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1226
Seleucid era	553/554 AG
Thai solar calendar	784–785
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 368 or −13 or −785     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 369 or −12 or −784

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Gordian III begins fighting against King Shapur I. The Greek philosopher Plotinus joins him and hopes to get first-hand knowledge of Persian and Indian philosophies.
• Gordian III leaves the Cimmerian cities in the Bosphorus (Crimea), as the land is now controlled by the Goths.

Persia

• Shapur I makes an attack on Antioch to drive out the Romans.

By topic

Religion

• Patriarch Titus succeeds Patriarch Eugenius I as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• Cao Mao, fourth emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 260)
• Saloninus, Roman Emperor (d. 260)
• Sun Hao, last emperor of the Kingdom of Wu (d. 284)

Deaths

• Man Chong, adviser to the Kingdom of Wei
• Sun Shao, general of the Wu Kingdom (b. 188)