1342

Year 1342 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1342

* May 7 - Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII as the 198th pope.
* July 16 - Louis I becomes king of Hungary.
* August 15 - Louis "the Child" becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens.
* September 4 - John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond.

Undated

*Guy de Lusignan becomes King Gosdantin II of Armenia.
*The Patriarch of Antioch is transferred to Damascus under Ignatius II.
*Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol.
*The Vijayanagara Empire is established in South India.

Births

* January 15 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
* April 6 - Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa (d. after 1363)
* ?November 8 - Julian of Norwich, English mystic (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)

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Deaths

* January 29 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
* February 16 - William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
* April 24 - Pope Benedict XII
* July 16 - King Charles I of Hungary
* 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)
*"probable" - Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar (b. 1270)

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