1342

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Centuries: 13th century · 14th century · 15th century
Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years: 1339 1340 1341 1342 1343 1344 1345

[edit] Events

  • May - Pope Clement VI becomes 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 moved to Damascus while Ignatius II is king
  • Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol
  • Louis I becomes king of Hungary
  • The Vijayanagara Empire is created in South India

[edit] Births

  • January 15 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (died 1404)
  • November 10 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (died 1408)
  • 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)

[edit] 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)