1342

'Years:' 1339 1340 1341 - 1342 - 1343 1344 1345

'Decades:' 1310s 1320s 1330s - '1340s' - 1350s 1360s 1370s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ May 7 - Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII as the 198th 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 transferred to Damascus under Ignatius II

★ Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol

★ Louis I becomes king of Hungary

★ The Vijayanagara Empire is established in South India

Births

★ January 15 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (died 1404)

★ 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)