1342 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1339 1340 1341 – 1342 – 1343 1344 1345

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

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)

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)