What is 1342?
{{Year nav|1342}} {{Year in various calendars|1342}} {{Year article header|1342}} == Events == * May – [[Pope Clement VI]] becomes [[pope]] * [[John III of Trebizond|John III Comnenus]] becomes [[Empire of Trebizond|emperor of Trebizond]] * [[Louis of Sicily|Louis]] becomes king of [[Sicily]] and [[Duchy of Athens|duke of Athens]] * [[Constantine IV of Armenia|Constantine IV]] becomes [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|king of Armenia]] * [[Patriarch of Antioch]] moved to [[Damascus]] while [[Ignatius II]] is king * [[Kitzbühel]] becomes part of [[Tyrol]] * [[Louis I of Hungary|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]]) [[Category:1342| ]]