Year 1342 (MCCCXLII) 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.

• Late May–late June War of the Breton Succession: Siege of Hennebont Forces of Charles, Duke of Brittany, conduct an unsuccessful siege of the fortified port of Hennebont in Brittany, commanded by Joan of Flanders, Countess of Montfort.

• 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 (John III Comnenus) becomes emperor of Trebizond.

Date unknown

• Guy de Lusignan becomes Constantine II, King of Armenia (Gosdantin, Կոստանդին Բ).

• 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 (d. 1404)

• April 6 Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa (d. after 1363)

• November 8 Julian of Norwich, English mystic (approximate date; d. 1413)

date unknown

• Levon V Lusignan of Armenia (d. 1393)

• Avignon Pope Clement VII (d. 1394)

• Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (d. 1373)

• John Trevisa, English translator (d. 1402)

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 (b. 1270)

date unknown

• Al-Jaldaki, Persian physician and alchemist

• Peter Paludanus, French bishop and theologian (b. c. 1275)

• William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros

• probable Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)

References