- 1342
Year 1342 was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1342
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May 7 -Pope Clement VI succeedsPope Benedict XII as the 198thpope .
*July 16 - Louis I becomes king ofHungary .
*August 15 - Louis "the Child" becomes king ofSicily and duke of Athens.
*September 4 - John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond.Undated
*Guy de Lusignan becomes King
Gosdantin II of Armenia .
*ThePatriarch of Antioch is transferred toDamascus under Ignatius II.
*Kitzbühel becomes part ofTyrol .
*TheVijayanagara Empire is established inSouth India .Births
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January 15 -Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d.1404 )
*April 6 -Infanta Maria, Marchioness of Tortosa (d. after1363 )
* ?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 ):"Also see ".
Deaths
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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 - KingCharles 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 ):"Also see ".
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